AB Testing Not Available on All Page Types? Specifically Navigation Items.

Russell Arden asked on May 14, 2021 18:50

we have enabled a/b testing, and if i'm on a "regular" page I can drop down the analytics menu and get to a/b tests.

However, if I go to the navigation element, which Kentico still treats like a page (e.g. "You need to check out the page for editing"), the analytics menu is not there, so no ability to a/b test. If you use the a/b test widget and navigate to that area, it says "no pages to display".

How can I test a navigation element since it doesn't live in a traditional page?

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Brenden Kehren answered on May 18, 2021 15:21

Am I safe in assuming you don't have a presentation layer for those page types, only a controller? If so, this is why. If you're only building out a nav structure with those page types and you don't have a visible page behind that page type (only a link), then how would you even test someone going to that page? Your A/B test would be on the page behind the link not, the navigation item itself.

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Russell Arden answered on May 18, 2021 17:19

Thanks Brenden, we'd test one button against another in the top right of our nav, but that seems impossible since the header/men is not a "page". Seems like Kentico a/b testing is just not set up for this and we'd need optimizely or something similar.

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