Hi @ghwood what kinds of things would you want to test?

ie, with A/B testing often it's about measuring some outcome in order to evaluate success of A or B. What are we measuring?

Hi @holloway
A few initial conversion goals are being considered:

• meeting registrations
• endowment donations
• email list subscriptions
  I expect these will be refined.

@ghwood thanks, and so you'd want to A/B test UI differences (eg button colours) and how they affect completion of registrations, etc?

Yes. CTAs, copy, colors, etc.

@AndrewCalderSpringload 's recommendation for AB testing is wagtail-ab-testing. With our initial investigations, seems it can address all our needs.

CC: @holloway

A few initial conversion goals are being considered:

• meeting registrations
• endowment donations
• email list subscriptions
  I expect these will be refined.

Out of the box, wagtail-ab-testing can track page visits within the site as conversion goals. This might mean, for example, that a user visits the https://www.ietf.org/endowment/donate-ietf-endowment/ page, regardless of whether they actually make a donation.

More useful would be to track clicks on links and buttons within the website, which may navigate the user to another website, and for the conversion goals above, it's reasonably straightforward. @ghwood, if the list is up-to-date and complete, I can implement them.

Tracking conversion goals on a different website, e.g. meeting registrations, is another matter: it requires cooperation from the other website and seems out of scope for this project.

Yes, this list is generally current for conversions that are clicking on links to another website:

1. initiate meeting registration -> click on a link in a Wagtail page to visit https://registration.ietf.org
2. make a donation - > successfully submit the form at https://www.ietf.org/endowment/donate-ietf-endowment/
3. email list subscriptions -> click a link to visit a webpage at https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/* (where the exact webpage would depend on the list. Let me know if I can provide any further detail about any of these.