Likelihood to Recommend If you're using the Adobe stack and tools to power your website, Target is a great solution to implement. I've utilized Target within two organizations, one running on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and the other on Adobe Magento. I don't see how companies could harness the full capacity of Target without also having
Adobe Analytics integrated. This is their 'secret sauce' and might not be a good solution for companies who are invested in Google Analytics 360. Integration was straightforward but did require support from the Adobe team to implement successfully. While Target is a great tool for digital teams to support, you'll need your tech team aligned and available to support implementation.
Read full review GTmetrix is very well suited for small organizations or startups that do not have sufficient technical staff for site optimization. GTmetrix also comes with the free version, which allows users to use their service for free for up to three websites, which is a good option. However, this might not be the best option for a large organization that works in different technical domains and have a good number of technical staff.
Read full review Pros This application gives us an incredible integration with Adobe Analytics that allows its operation to be the best and determine the performance of our website. It offers us an analysis based on user behavior and a web page customization option to adapt and meet the needs of those users. Read full review Really complete report of performance issues. Get reports from PageSpeed and YSlow at same time. Gives a score from each separate tool, also displays loading time, page size and total requests very easily. Read full review Cons This is something a lot of testing tools struggle with, but I think the WYSIWYG ("What you see is what you get") editor - or Visual Experience Composer (VEC) in Adobe terminology - could definitely use some work. It's a struggle to execute many tests beyond simple copy, color, placement changes, and even the features that do exist are often clunky if not altogether broken. The interface itself can be a bit counterintuitive in certain parts. If you are familiar with other tools, it's likely middle of the road in this respect; think much easier to understand than Monetate for instance, but a far cry from the simplicity of an Optimizely. It can be a bit buggy from time to time. The worst example is the frequency at which the tool will fail to save due to an error, but not inform you of this until you try to save, at which point your only option is to log out, log back in, and make all of your updates once again. It can become an extreme pain point at times, and I personally have just gotten into the habit of saving every couple of minutes to avoid a massive loss of productivity. Read full review Deeper knowledge of page elements and their importance Knowing which areas will have great impact beyond time of load speeds Should drop any elements that do not reach a certain level of impact - to save distraction and get important issues dealt with Read full review Likelihood to Renew We have a team of people trained on how to use the application and it integrates well with the other Adobe products we use. Our future roadmap of testing will require some complex scenarios which we hope Target will be able to accomplish
Read full review Usability Can be difficult to learn, but once you understand Mboxes and the nuances of the system it's very user friendly
Read full review It's easy to use fast, data is easy to read and take aways are great too.
Read full review Reliability and Availability i don't think we use the full functionalities of the tool, but to use the full functions, it's almost impossible (Too hard)
Read full review Performance The bottleneck is never the software program
Read full review Support Rating On several occasions, we have had the need to ask for help from the Adobe Target support team, and I must say that they have provided us with an excellent experience, as they take care of solving the problems quickly and with high precision
Read full review I have never had the need to use GTmetrix support. Therefore, there is really no way for me to give a grade here. However, if you are on a paid plan my guess and it is a guess, is that their support is as good as the tool is. There are a lot more features in the paid plans, reporting. monitoring etc. I could see where support could come into play as these features are added to the account
Read full review In-Person Training The instructor that came to train us was awesome and this training was very useful. I would recommend it for anyone who is going to be using this software. I only mark it lower because it is an added expense to an already expensive product, and a lot of the training covered the "Target" portion of the software (which again, we didn't use)
Read full review Online Training The training was very easy to understand, however it would have been more useful to my development team than me. It was also primarily over-the-phone, which is never as easy to follow as in-person. We ended up scheduling and paying for an in-person training session to supplement the online/phone training because it wasn't helpful enough.
Read full review Implementation Rating Implement using a global mBox on the page so you can change any and everything over the traditional method. Traditional method is good if you do not have technical web dev resources, do not know Javascript/jQuery, or you have money to blow on mBox calls. Global deployment reduces mBox calls and allows you to touch many parts of the page easily. A lot more customizable
Read full review Alternatives Considered We seriously considered another software but because we use so many other Adobe products this made the most sense for us. If you are not dependent on other Adobe software and are a smaller company, in my opinion, Target may not be the best fit.
Read full review GTmetrix is one of the Completely free web analyzers. It helps us to monitor our website performance, load time, etc. not for just monitoring it gives suggestions to optimize our site to increase our site performance. it generates the Yslow and page speed reports. and the suggestions to increase to 100 percent.
Read full review Return on Investment We have been able to run specific A/B tests that have shown an increase in conversion, which in turn has led to very large banked sales numbers for the year. We have been able to prove that using and automated Merchandising process did not decrease conversion. This allowed us to greatly increase efficiency by opening up resource time. Read full review It made my sites more stable. I can fix my issues easily. My site visitors increased with the help of this software. Read full review ScreenShots