517135 - A-B test for contributions links on home, search, and category pages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect, P3)

Description

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Now that we've added these links in AMO, we need to test if having these links go to the developer profile pages is more effective than having the links go directly to paypal.  I'd like to do a 33/33/33 test where one third of the pageviews get the existing behavior, one third goes directly to paypal with the suggested amount prefilled, and the final third showing a popup "contribute x/contribute another amount"

These sources should show up in the stats_contributions_table as homepage_direct, homepage_choose, homepage_developer, category_direct, category_choose, category_developer, search_direct, search_choose, search_developer

Note: the _developer contributions are part of a two page clickstream that starts with the user clicking a contribute link on the referrer page {homepage,category,search} and then results in the user successfully contributing from the subsequent developer page.

Ideally these buckets should be per session, so users don't see inconsistent behavior in a session.

Comment 1

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

I can do this for 5.4, unless there's any objection to me taking it?

Comment 2

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Can you create it so that the test ends on a certain date?

Comment 3

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

Sure, no problem.

Comment 4

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

I don't think there's enough time for me to do a good job of this before the 5.4 freeze, but I am taking it for 5.5 and will make it my first priority.

Comment 5

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Thanks- would be good to get this for 5.6 as it's currently hard to see which method is most effective.  Currently the developer pages make up about a third of overall revenue but there's no way to split this traffic between the different methods.

Comment 6

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Won't be done for 5.6; kicking to future.

Comment 7

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

We give up.