In this post, you’ll discover 8 powerful A/B split testing plugins and online tools you can use to improve your website’s conversion rates.
Every blogger, entrepreneur, online business owner strives for more traffic, more leads, more subscribers, and more sales. We always want more, more, more.
Take website traffic for instance –
There are countless methods and strategies for growing your website’s traffic, but sometimes, getting more traffic might not be the answer to your problems.
Like Bryan Eisenberg once rightly said – Most websites don’t have a traffic problem, however, every website has a conversion problem.
Which is absolutely true even to this day.
Now here’s the thing, it ain’t easy trying to grow your website’s traffic, and if you already have a decent amount of traffic to your website, how about trying to make better use of that traffic?
A/B split testing was once a complicated and costly marketing technique, perhaps reserved only for businesses and entrepreneurs with large budgets.
Well, if that was the case, not anymore.
Technology has given rise to an array of powerful online tools, apps, and services that provide simple and affordable A/B split testing solutions for everyone.
According to AdPushup, A/B testing is the most used testing method in marketing for improving conversion rates.
So, without wasting any more of your time, below are 8 of the best A/B split testing tools that you can use to improve conversions for your blog, website or online business.
And before you ask, no, it doesn’t need to be complicated at all and it doesn’t need to be expensive either, and you don’t need any prior marketing skills to start making use of these awesome tools.
Let’s get to it.
Let’s first take a look at some powerful WordPress plugins you can use for doing A/B split testing.
Let’s start with one of my favorite plugin’s, Thrive Optimize.
Before now, doing effective A/B split testing for your landing pages in WordPress was somewhat of a challenge. Just a few plugins were in existence, and most of them not that great either.
Thrive Optimize is a plugin that makes it very easy to set up and test any type of landing page visitor/conversion goal.
You simply create your landing page using the Thrive Architect plugin, make a second copy of that landing page and add some variations, create and customize your test using Thrive Optimize, set your conversion goal and you’re all set to start collecting data.
Thrive Optimize lets you –
All of this can be done in your WP dashboard and without ever leaving your site.
Now, while Thrive Optimize is a powerful option, it is not a stand-alone plugin. It is, in fact, an add-on plugin for the Thrive Architect landing page builder.
What does this mean?
It means that if you are not using Thrive Architect for building your landing pages, you cannot use Thrive Optimize to do A/B split testing.
In any case, Thrive Architect and Optimize is the perfect combination and makes for a very powerful and complete landing page and A/B split testing package.
Is this a cost-effective solution?
Thrive Optimize is an affordable solution for WordPress websites. The plugin costs $67 to use on a single website, however, if you don’t have Thrive Architect, you will have to purchase the Thrive Architect and Thrive Optimize bundle at $127.
Those prices give you 12 months of updates and support.
The Nelio A/B Testing tool is a powerful subscription-based solution for WordPress websites.
The plugin does boast some nifty features including stunning heat maps, click maps, widget testing, and conversion actions.
Nelio A/B testing can be used to test alternative names, featured images, and descriptions for your product pages, and much more.
Is this a cost-effective solution?
The plugin is not the most affordable solution for WordPress users, especially when you compare it with something like Thrive Optimize.
You can trial Nelio for up to 1,000 page views, then the most basic subscription plan will set you back $288 per year, or $29 per month to use on 1 site.
Next on our list is the Marketing Optimizer plugin, which doesn’t seem to have very many users at the moment, however, it does look somewhat promising.
Features include –
A plus point with Marketing Optimizer is that it comes with some cool templates for you to use, saving you time and resources having to create your own.
That being said, the templates look somewhat dated and editing or making changes to them, using the default WP editor, can be a challenge, and, is nowhere near as intuitive as other drag-and-drop landing page tools available.
Is this a cost-effective solution?
Yes, the plugin is a complete stand-alone WordPress tool and is 100% free. To make the most of this plugin, however, you’ll probably need to take out one of the plans from Marketing Optimizer, and then authenticate/integrate it with the plugin.
OK, so let’s dive into the 7 best software tools for doing A/B split testing on your website right now.
Over 220,000 website owners use Crazy Egg to improve their conversions right now.
Crazy Egg’s A/B split testing tools is simple to set up and very easy to use –
You simply add a tracking code to your website, add your website URL, select which platform to track (desktop, tablet, or mobile), and you’re pretty much set to start testing and fetching data.
The software comes with a host of features including testing and experimenting with –
Is Crazy Egg cost effective?
For the most part, yes it is. Crazy Egg is completely free to set up and begin using for up to 5,000 visits per month. You can also create unlimited A/B tests with this plan.
Premium plans start from $29 per month, billed annually, which makes Crazy Egg extremely cost-effective compared to other solutions.
Unbounce offers a complete suite of marketing and conversion optimization tools for website owners and businesses.
For starters, you can actually create stunning landing pages using their drag-and-drop landing page builder tool, and then create variations of your pages to run simple A/B split tests.
You can test every element of your variation landing page and even split the traffic 50/50 to get the data you need to improve your conversion rates.
With Unbounce, you can also test pop-ups and sticky bars.
Is Ubounce cost effective?
You can trial Unbounce for 30-days before signing up to one of their plans.
Prices start from $79 per month (Paid Annually), or $99 per month (Paid Monthly).
Whilst it’s not the cheapest of options, you do get access to a lot more than just A/B split testing tools with Unbounce.
Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) is a powerful conversion optimization program with A/B split testing capabilities, used by over 4,500 brands as of right now.
VWO offers some of the most powerful tools on the market right now. With VWO you can –
Is VWO cost-effective?
It’s certainly not the cheapest by far. You can sign up for a free trial account with VWO before signing up to one of their plans, which starts from a steep $299 per month.
At that cost, WWO would probably be best suited for businesses and individuals with large marketing budgets.
Google Optimize is a free and simple A/B split testing tool for everyone.
To get started, all you need to do is link your Google Analytics account profile, modify your Google Analytics tracking code and begin testing your pages by pasting the URL of the page you want to test.
The Google Optimize tool supports three types of experiments: A/B, redirect, and multivariate.
Is Google Analytics Optimize cost effective?
Yes, it’s free.
Last but not least is Convertize.
Convertize offers easy-to-use smart technology tools to help you create and optimize A/B split tests quickly.
You can define your testing options such as audience type, traffic allocation, specific improvement goals, and much more.
The SmartEditor allows you to make tweaks to any page of your website, including selecting one of 250 persuasion tactics used by leading brands to add to your website.
This is a perfect addition to help you improve your conversions further, and all without touching a single line of code.
Is Convertize cost effective?
You can trial Convertize for free before signing up to one of their affordable plans. Plans start from $49 per month (Paid Annually), or $59 per month (Paid Monthly).
That’s pretty reasonable I think. The starter plan gives you access to Convertize for 1 user/website with up to 30,000 visits per month.
So, there you have it. Eight of the very best A/B split testing tools (and plugins) for you to check out and use on your website, whatever your conversion goal might be.
Right now, out of the eight listed above, I’m using Thrive Optimize and Crazy Egg.
Thrive Optimize is such a simplistic tool. While using it, I’m not bouncing from one site to another to set up, configure, run, and tweak my A/B split tests. I’m doing everything on the back end of my website, and I love that.
Plus, since I’ve been using Thrive Architect to build all of my landing pages with Thrive Architect, it makes perfect sense for me to use this add-on plugin.
It really depends, if you’re on WordPress I recommend checking out Thrive Architect and Optimize. If your website is built on any other platform, then Crazy Egg is also powerful and affordable.
Best of luck in picking the right one for your business.
