It’s 2015, and the customer experience is increasingly being driven by techniques like A/B testing and optimization.
Optimizely recently surveyed digital experience owners to learn just how they think about and allocate resources towards their testing and optimization programs.
These slides answer the questions:
- How often do teams optimizing run A/B and multivariate tests?
- What are the top benefits that optimization programs are seeing?
- How do optimization teams manage their experiment process?
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4. The Optimization Benchmark
• What it is: Optimizely’s first
industry survey
• Goal: Understand how
testing and optimization is
thought about and
conducted
9. Measuring the quantitative and qualitative benefits of optimization.
For teams that adopt
optimization, the benefits
are undeniable.
10. 98% of optimizers agree that it’s valuable to their success
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98%
94%
93%
91%
88%
87%
87%
80%
76%
Is valuable to the success of my marketing campaigns and/or product strategy
Improves my understanding of my customer’s needs and desires
Helps me to deliver relevant content to my customers
Increases my conversion and engagement rates
Improves the ROI of my marketing campaigns
Allows me to take action on data quickly
Has created a culture of learning and experimentation at my company
Improves the creative output of my team
Improves my team’s speed to execute on ideas
6%
7%
9%
12%
13%
13%
20%
24%
Agree
Disagree
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
98%
Is valuable to the success of my marketing campaigns and/or product strategy
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
94%
Improves my understanding of my customer’s needs and desires
Helps me to deliver relevant content to my customers
6%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
91%
Increases my conversion and engagement rates
9%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
88%
Improves the ROI of my marketing campaigns
Allows me to take action on data quickly
12%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
87%
Allows me to take action on data quickly
Has created a culture of learning and experimentation at my company
13%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
87%
Has created a culture of learning and experimentation at my company
13%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
80%
Improves the creative output of my team
20%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
76%
Improves my team’s speed to execute on ideas
24%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
11. … along with many other measurable and immeasurable benefits
Quantitative Qualitative
94%
Improves my understanding of my customer’s needs and desires
Helps me to deliver relevant content to my customers
6%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
87%
Allows me to take action on data quickly
Has created a culture of learning and experimentation at my company
13%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
87%
Has created a culture of learning and experimentation at my company
13%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
80%
Improves the creative output of my team
20%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
91%
Increases my conversion and engagement rates
9%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
88%
Improves the ROI of my marketing campaigns
Allows me to take action on data quickly
12%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
76%
Improves my team’s speed to execute on ideas
24%
Do you agree or disagree with the following statements
about optimization?
12. Budgets for Optimization Set to Increase in 2016
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Increase Decrease No change
57%
6%
37%
61%
2%
38%
43%
5%
52%
Executive
Manager
Individual
How do you plan to change the amount of budget allocated to
optimization in the next 12 months?
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
55%
53%
4%
43%
Increase
Decrease
No change
How do you plan to change the amount of budget allocated to
optimization in the next 12 months?
13. • Adding new roles to team
• Reinvesting returns from optimization
• Scaling optimization as a competitive
advantage
• Anticipating business growth; planning
to ramp up growth with optimization
Reasons for Increasing Budget for Optimization
14. “Optimization has become even
more crucial in today's market, so
more budget is required to make
a position in the market.”
– Anonymous Survey Respondent
16. The analytical know-how and creativity that makes testing work.
The human capital
behind optimization.
17. 52% of optimization teams have 1 or more full-time hires
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
One, full-time
Multiple, full-time
One, part-time
Multiple, part-time
An agency
None
23%
29%
17%
29%
2% 2%
How many members of your team are focused on optimization?
18. Who optimizers are planning to hire
Web Analyst UX DesignerMarketer
Front-end
Developer
Program
Manager
19. Marketing Most Likely to be Lead Optimization
Marketing
62%
Design
53%
UI or Front-End Development
40%
Product
36%
Engineering
35%
E-commerce
31%
Sales
30%
Customer Service or Support
23%
Executive Staff
20%
Which teams are involved with optimization at your company?
21. Running a testing program like a well-oiled machine requires expert processes.
Research, prioritization,
analysis, and communication.
22. Analytics are the Top Input for Optimization
Analytics
72%
Results from Previous Experiments
57%
Customer Surveys
51%
User Research Studies
50%
A/B Testing Case Studies
44%
Support Tickets or Live Chat Feedback
38%
Heat Maps
28%
Other
3%
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Which of the following inform your optimization strategy?
23. Optimizers Prioritize their Tests by Revenue Potential,
and Potential to Improve the Customer Experience
Potential to increase the value of each customer interaction, or increase overall revenue
65%
The impact on ease of use and satisfaction for my customer
58%
Improvement to website or app stability or performance
48%
The inefficiencies that currently exist in my marketing and product funnels
33%
The cost to acquire customers on various platforms
31%
We don’t do this kind of prioritization
2%
Other
2%
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65
How do you prioritize which digital interactions with your audience
require optimization?
24. More than Half of Optimization Orgs
Run Experiments at Least Weekly
Multiple Times per Week
Weekly
Multiple Times per Month
Monthly
Multiple Times per Year
We Don’t Run Tests
37%
21%
15%
12%
9%
7%
Approximately how often do you run A/B or multivariate tests to
optimize your website, mobile app, or other digital channels?
29. • Bring up the benefits of optimization to your internal
stakeholders and teams that aren’t testing yet
• Get your budgets in order for next year! Include headcount,
additional tools you might want, design resources, and more
• Focus on diversifying your inputs for optimization - beyond
analytics
• Think about what you’ll improve between now and the end
of 2015, and your goals for 2016
Benchmark Report Takeaways