Monetate vs VWO

• You can test virtually ANYTHING on your website. Once you know what you're doing, it is really easy to upload assets and really customize the details of your test.
• If you have multiple websites, you can keep all of your website tests separate - for example, we manage two separate brands, both which have 3 environments we can set up tests in: development, staging, and production environments. So, we can easily manage 6 separate test groups and store the various content in the proper section, very easily.
• The design is really clean and easy to navigate. It is easy to organize and filter your experiments, you can tag them to make filtering a lot easier (especially when you have a bunch of experiments running at the same time), and the simple function of duplicating an experiment makes minor changes to a grand experiment SO much quicker.
• The Monetate Inspector tool (I could be using the wrong word, sorry!) also allows you to far more easily identify the unique ID of an experiment so you can find it in Monetate and make any desired changes rather than sifting one by one through your various experiments trying to figure out which one you mean to edit.

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• When designing A/B variations I can choose to either use the visual editor or to make the changes using code. I particularly like using jQuery.
• VWO offers the ability to keep long term track of the performance of your goals.
• I can easily identify recordings of users that dropped out of a funnel and watch those.
• There is live chat to get support, with great response times and which is very helpful.
• You are forced to create observations and hypotheses when creating a test, which is a great way to make sure that you are actually testing something worthwhile.
• You can group tests together so that you can rule out interaction effects between tests that you are running at the same time.

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• Monetate can be difficult to learn at first. I think having a clear way to access how-to guides or videos would help employees learn the tool faster.
• A small criticism but Monetate doesn't allow you to delete any experiences. It can make the platform a bit messy because there are times where we practice creating experiences and now they can't be deleted.

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• The user interface within VWO does take a bit of time to get used to, especially as it pertains to switching back and forth between tests. When running multiple experiments on a site at a time, a clear and succinct dashboard for everything in one place would be helpful (as opposed to needing to switch between A/B, multivariate, etc).

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• In many cases we have seen high lift in test scenarios very quickly, which helped us to move these better improvements to product faster.
• Monetate has also helped us to asses changes that won't work. There is less risk with Monetate when you can test a hypothesis out first.

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• We've been able to roll out new design patterns with confidence that short term revenue is not negatively effected.
• We've had more wins than losses, as the company is just ramping up a testing strategy. We know percentage of wins will go down as we optimize, but VWO has been vital on making calculated steps along the way.

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