A/B Testing forStartups
by Aleksandr Osiyuk
Product Analyst at MacPaw
t.me/osiyuk
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MacPaw products
CleanMyMac SetappGemini Gemini Photos
Clean External
Drives to Get
More Space
The first
subscription
store for Mac
apps
Wipe Duplicate
Files Off Your
Mac
Optimize
iPhone photo
storage
Analyst & PMexpectations
Analyst needs to:
● apply a scientific approach
● dig into metrics
● try different methods of analysis
6.
Analyst & PMexpectations
Analyst needs to:
● apply a scientific approach
● dig into metrics
● try different methods of analysis
PM needs to:
● fix a winner as soon as possible
● know how much money it produces
CR from 1step to 3 step
CR from 2 step to 3 step
Base CR: 50/1000=5%
Relative increase: 10%
Sample size: 30 244 (30 days)
1 step
1000
2 step
200
55
5
50Base CR: 50/200=25%
Relative increase: 10%
Sample size: 4 753 (24 days)
CR 25%
CR 5%
A/A test
Target action
19.
Tips to speedup testing
● Use metric that is closely correlated to final conversion
● Testing big changes
● Divide users in the middle of a funnel
● Increase visual contrast to be noticed by users
20.
Tips to speedup testing
Users
every day
Actions CR
Relative
increase
Sample
size
n, days
1000 120 12% 10% 11657 11.7
21.
Tips to speedup testing
Users
every day
Actions CR
Relative
increase
Sample
size
n, days
1000 120 12% 10% 11657 11.7
500 50 10% 8%
22.
Tips to speedup testing
Users
every day
Actions CR
Relative
increase
Sample
size
n, days
1000 120 12% 10% 11657 11.7
500 50 10% 8%
1500 170 11.33% 9.41% 14041 9.4
Tips to speedup testing
● Use metric that is closely correlated to final conversion
● Testing big changes
● Divide users in the middle of a funnel
● Increase visual contrast to be noticed by users
● Calculate minimum detectable effect (MDE)
А/В testing featuresin apps
● Why do you need to split the traffic on server-side?
● If there is no internet? (А/А-test in apps 50/50? Case about
custom settings)