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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Content Experiments was a tool that can be used to create A/B test from within Google Analytics. It has been discontinued since 2019, and Google now recommends using its Google Optimize service for A/B testing.N/A

    LaunchDarkly

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ALaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables DevOps and Product teams to use feature flags at scale. This allows for greater collaboration among team members, and increased usability testing before full-scale feature deployment.

    $12

    per month

    Pricing
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)LaunchDarkly
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Foundation
    $12
    per month per Service Connection per month, or $10 per 1k client-side MAU per mo
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Guardian
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)LaunchDarkly
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discount available on the Foundation plan for annual pricing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)LaunchDarkly
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    LaunchDarkly
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)LaunchDarkly
    Testing and Experimentation
    Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Google Content Experiments (discontinued) and LaunchDarkly
    Feature
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    9.2
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    LaunchDarkly
    -
    Ratings
    a/b experiment testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Split URL testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multivariate testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-page/funnel testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-browser testing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app testing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test significance9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual / WYSIWYG editor10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced code editor9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page surveys8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visitor recordings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Preview mode8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test duration calculator10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment scheduler10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiment workflow and approval8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic experiment activation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Client-side tests10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server-side tests10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mutually exclusive tests10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Google Content Experiments (discontinued) and LaunchDarkly
    Feature
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    LaunchDarkly
    -
    Ratings
    Standard visitor segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website personalization10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Google Content Experiments (discontinued) and LaunchDarkly
    Feature
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    9.9
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    LaunchDarkly
    -
    Ratings
    Click analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test reporting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CSV export10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Experiments results dashboard10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)LaunchDarkly
    Small Businesses
    Google Optimize
    Score6.7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    AB Tasty
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Google Optimize
    Score6.7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)LaunchDarkly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (26 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)LaunchDarkly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Do you already have Google Analytics? If so content experiments is a good, free, starting point to dip your toes in A/B testing. Do you need to run Multivariate experiments? If so, Google Content Experiments is not going to fit your needs.
    Incentivized
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    LaunchDarkly
    If a new feature should be added but unsure of how it will actually work or how users will accept the new enhancement or change, this tool allows you test and measure initial results. This saves so much time and energy knowing the results before it is deployed and might have low user adoption or acceptance.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Quick and easy to create and set up experiments
    • Results are presented in a way that is familiar and easy for any Google Analytics user to understand. So is great for beginners to conversion testing
    • Already integrated into Google Analytics and can measure results against your existing conversion goals
    • Allows nine possible variants to be A/B tested
    • Features more than one testing methodology, Bayesian (Multi-Armed Bandit,) and Full Factorial
    • Allows the user to select one of three possible confidence thresholds to ensure that experiment results are robust
    • Great value, it is free!
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    LaunchDarkly
    • A/B or Multi Variant Testing as a methodology to gather insight from customer usage. Experimentation as a feature within LaunchDarkly offers information around the success of one variant over another and whether the experiment has reached statistical significance.
    • Being able to decouple deployment of code from the release of a feature is hugely valuable.
    • Development teams are empowered to manage features within their production applications for reliability or testing purposes.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Their documentation is not the best and it's quite a steep learning curve.
    • They also don't tell you particularly well what sorts of things you should be testing.
    • Compared to other suppliers of A/B testing tools- it needs a simpler interface. Optimize is starting to answer that - but is still quite Beta-like.
    Incentivized
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    LaunchDarkly
    • Limited number of users on cheaper plans that is limiting our ability to audit log who is making changes.
    • Some of our engineers are confused between flags and segments and have set up items incorrectly.
    • Better documented support for React with Typescript.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Content Experiments just makes it is simple and easy to implement A|B tests. We will be evaluating other tools in search of a more robust system for multivariate and cross-page testing, such as Optimizely or Visual Website Optimizer. However, for basic testing, you can't really beat it.
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    LaunchDarkly
    It fits out business case
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    LaunchDarkly
    It's very easy to create new feature flags and set them properly. It is more difficult to get LaunchDarkly integrated within a distributed system so that flags can be used. Especially on stateless servers where gating features by user is not easy. Overall though, it is very easy to get started and I like how simple it is to use.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    LaunchDarkly
    No issue with availability at all
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    LaunchDarkly
    From what I have seen, LaunchDarkly integrates well with your code and also services you might have in your tech ecosystem. We use Jenkins for automation and we were able to use it to build pipelines to automate the control of LaunchDarkly toggles in our code.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Using the free tool, overall "live support" is limited. However, there are plenty of online resources to get started. If you need handheld support, it is best to upgrade the service or hire a developer through one of Google's partner agencies. There could be more support for understanding what makes a test useful or not.
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    LaunchDarkly
    The overall support is very responsive
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    LaunchDarkly
    Yes I do.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Google Website Optimizer was a better product but has been discontinued. We have also used Test and Target , which has more features but we have been doing fine with Google Content Experiments. Most testing situations can be handled with Google Content Experiments.
    Incentivized
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    LaunchDarkly
    Have used a custom feature flag application created inhouse. All the basic functionality was same as the ones that LaunchDarkly provides. But as time progressed, it required more and more tracking capabilities like which user has turned on/off a feature flag, what are the statuses of different feature flags that are being used across the application etc., So, all and all maintenance of such tracking has become cumbersome.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    LaunchDarkly
    The platform didn't go down since we implemented it
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • CE has made efficient time use easy and fool-proof when it comes to learning the software
    • Because it integrates with other Google programs there is a benefit to track with Google Analytics
    • The learning curve can create initiate time investment that may go beyond what companies are willing to dedicate.
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    LaunchDarkly
    • Improved developer experience with some teams moving to Trunk-based Development.
    • Increased deployment frequency due to smaller code releases.
    • Validation of the technical and business value of work is achieved more quickly through smaller pieces of work and through experimenting with a small group of users before a feature gets to 100% of customers.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    LaunchDarkly Screenshots

    Screenshot of regression detection and automated incident response at the feature level. This connects critical metrics to the release process so that every change is monitored - even the smallest releases, where issues would previously have been obscured by noise in the wider system metrics.Screenshot of how LaunchDarkly helps developers compare agent iterations, track key metrics like acceptance, accuracy, latency, and token usage, and safely push the best-performing variation live.Screenshot of the interface used to test prompts side by side, switch between providers like OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, and add custom models or manage API keys.Screenshot of adaptive triggers, which let developers automatically respond to AI performance changes by setting thresholds for metrics like hallucination rate and taking actions such as switching to a stronger model or changing providers.