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# How to A/B test your website?

**[Plausible Analytics](https://daily.dev/sources/plausible-blog)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A comprehensive guide to A/B testing websites, covering what it is, real-world examples (Google's 50 shades of blue, Bing's $100M headline change, Booking.com's scarcity experiments), and a step-by-step process for running tests. Covers how to set goals, create variants, split traffic, and analyze results using conversion rates. Also explains how to track A/B tests using Plausible Analytics custom properties, and highlights pitfalls like SEO disruptions, statistical significance, privacy compliance, and page speed impacts.

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