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#opticon2015 Scaling The Next Web’s Testing Program to Maximum Impact Martijn Scheijbeler Lead Growth, SEO & Analytics - The Next Web @martijnsch [email protected]
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#opticon2015

Scaling The Next Web’s Testing Program to Maximum ImpactMartijn ScheijbelerLead Growth, SEO & Analytics - The Next Web

@martij[email protected]

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Yearly 5.000 attendees, 75.000 products sold. Monthly 6 million unique users, 12 million pageviews.

The Next Web: 2006 > 2015

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What’s happened in the last 12 months?

Scaling our testing program

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That clearly wasn’t good enough

1 test a month :(

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Currently 5-6 tests a week, how did we get there?

15-20 tests a month :)

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What did we learn along the way?

• Swim lanes, KPIs, Goals.

• Segments: traffic sources, etc.

• Idea creation: backlog + prioritisation.

• Scaling > Analysing results.

• Do it live!

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Unique Users, Page Views, Emails & Revenue.Goals: UU, PV, Emails & $

Related stories, pagination, sharing, email signups.

KPI: CTR, Engagement, Funnels

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New v.s. Returning - Europe v.s. USA - Facebook v.s. SEO - Mobile v.s. Desktop

Type, Regions, Source, Device

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Idea creation v.s. Planning

• Different templates + segments.

• How much time per test? Run tests for a fixed predefined time.

• The maximum of your program.

• Take away: create a backlog!

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The part that we can’t scale yet

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Analysing > Scaling!

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Well, this is both the most boring and most exciting part!

1-2 main KPIs, 15 secondary KPIs

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Rails, Google Analytics API Built with love by the TNW Marketing team.

TNW Analytics

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TNW Analytics was born!

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Adding a new idea

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Schedule

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Test

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Saving 20% of time per test!

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Take away: Be able to push code!

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What’s next?

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Scaling our testing program to the next level?• Even more templates, across more projects.

• 25+ tests a month with current growth of traffic.

• Bigger team? We can’t keep up with coding ;-)

• More automation? Push test variant to GTM.

• Mix it up with personalisation/ behaviour.

• Push our experiments to Slack for sharing.

• Create a better style guide + Bootstrap guidelines.

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Summary & Take aways

• Know your KPI framework, expectations and limitations.

• Know your segments, CR% so you know how to prioritise.

• Follow your planning, priorities.

• Scale = 40% - 50% automation: analyse fast!

• Be able to push code live!

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#opticon2015

Have fun & Thank you!

Martijn ScheijbelerLead Growth , SEO & Analytics - TNW

@martij[email protected]