unbounce vs VWO | TrustRadius

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Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 122 reviews and ratings

Score 7.4 out of 10

Based on 174 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

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VWO

a/b experiment testing

Split URL testing

Multivariate testing

Multi-page/funnel testing

Cross-browser testing

Test significance

Visual / WYSIWYG editor

Advanced code editor

Visitor recordings

Preview mode

Test duration calculator

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VWO

Standard visitor segmentation

Behavioral visitor segmentation

Traffic allocation control

Website personalization

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Heatmap tool

Click analytics

Scroll maps

Conversion tracking

Goal tracking

Test reporting

Results segmentation

Experiments results dashboard

Pros

Customer Support
Unbounce provides users with valuable resources for building landing pages, including pre-existing template designs, a navigable technical support forum, and the "live chat with a human" feature. Therefore, Unbounce is ideal for users ranging from beginner to advanced levels of industry experience.
Cross-Channel Reporting
Unbounce can be used to track conversion data for major SEM channels such as Bing Ads, Google AdWords, and Google Analytics. By placing javascript at the head of an Unbounce page for Bing UET Tags, Google AdWords Conversion Goals, and Google Analytics Global Site Tags, users begin to compile the necessary data for producing highly detailed multi-channel performance reports.
Creating Contact Lists For Drip Email Campaigns
Unbounce also allows users to transfer and store contact information into a mailing list by integrating landing pages with various email marketing platforms (e.g. ConstantContact, MailChimp, etc.), both seamlessly and effectively empowering users to create a new mailing list, or bolster a preexisting audience.

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Danilo Roberto Zerón

Senior Account Manager (Search Engine Marketing)

PPC DirectorMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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VWO has a strong support team willing to help provide answers to questions during the setup process. During setup, we had some questions regarding implementation across a significant number of sites and they were able to ease dev team concerns and provide detailed best practices to streamline integration.
Some of the initial results of a few of the initial tests raised some questions internally. We setup a call and were able to quickly address the questions and find some opportunities to leverage moving forward.
I discovered a bug within the UI that lead to some questions internally. I was able to report it and the problem was fixed rather quickly and their team followed up with a thank you for reporting it and to report the issue was now resolved.

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Real Estate, 51-200 employees

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Cons

The reporting is very basic - pretty much only A/B test comparisons. If you need more in-depth reporting you will have to use an external system.
Page performance isn't great. When running our landing pages through Google's Page Speed analysis tool, they did not perform well compared to landing pages we created outside of Unbounce. This was big for us because, in paid search, Google looks at your landing page quality as a factor that affects what you pay per click.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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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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Account Supervisor

Digital CurrentMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

unbounce 7.7

Based on 9 answers

The nonprofit discount makes it so affordable that my client was happy to continue their subscription all year round. They have used it to build landing pages to capture expressions of interest for their next recruitment window. It hasn't quite produced the sort of results we were hoping for, but I'm not sure that's Unbounce's fault.

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Christopher Whalen

Search Marketing Executive

TorchboxInternet, 11-50 employees

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VWO 8.7

Based on 20 answers

It's great value and we think we've ironed out all the major teething troubles. However, if we experience any more bugs or problems that significantly slow us down then we're seriously considering switching to Optimizely, which I haven't personally tested but have heard great things about from my CRO peers

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Head of User Experience

streetlife.comInternet, 11-50 employees

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Usability

unbounce 7.8

Based on 2 answers

Unbounce made it easy for my team to build landing pages for website and email. We gained valuable A/B testing insights and gathered information from visitors effectively converting them to leads. The Editor is straight forward and I was able to learn to use it on my own without instruction. CRM integration was easy and consistently worked.

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Director of Business Development

Connect First, Inc.Telecommunications, 11-50 employees

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VWO 8.2

Based on 2 answers

I gave Visual Website Optimizer a rating of 8 because it is overall a great product to use. Setting up and keeping track of various tests is easy and straight forward. The only reason why this product is not rated higher is because the support documents online leave a lot of room for improvement.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

5001-10,000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

unbounce 9.1

Based on 2 answers

No answer on this topic is available.

VWO 9.1

Based on 3 answers

I have not experienced an application error or unplanned outage with VWO.

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Verified User

Strategist in Marketing

Facilities Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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VWO 8.2

Based on 1 answer

VWO doesn't appear to slow down our website at all, though some customers with adblockers like UBlock Origin have been known to not see entire pages if VWO is making changes to the page at a macro level (background, font, etc). This is rare though.

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Verified User

Strategist in Marketing

Facilities Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

unbounce 9.4

Based on 8 answers

Unbounce customer support is very strong. We have been able to connect with them via email and telephone mediums. They are very knowledgeable and can effectively help resolve difficult problems that are slowing us down. Overall Unbounce customer support is very professional. Our wait times have always been small or at least reasonable.

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Michael Dell'Arciprete

Director of Customer Acquisition

People's Trust Insurance CompanyInsurance, 501-1000 employees

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VWO 9.1

Based on 4 answers

While their online document support is lacking a simple email to their support team will almost always get responded to the next day. It has however taken more than one email to explain the problem to the support team till they understood the problem. The solution I was given also only half fixed the problem the rest I figured out on my own.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

5001-10,000 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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VWO 6.4

Based on 1 answer

Training was good, just limited to the onboarding process. They walked through all of the steps it takes to get started in VWO and each of the modules, along with giving us ideas for starting our first test. I feel like it could be better if there was a guided process within the VWO program to continue to educate you along the way, and a way to turn that off for experienced users.

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Verified User

Strategist in Marketing

Facilities Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

unbounce 6.0

Based on 3 answers

Choose a subdomain that is appropriate for multiple types of pages. You don't want to have to keep changing it. Think about using Google Tag Manager to manage your Google Analytics code and event tracking. Build one landing page to completion. Then make a copy of it if you need to create variant pages.

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Christopher Whalen

Search Marketing Executive

TorchboxInternet, 11-50 employees

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VWO 9.1

Based on 3 answers

Overall, the implementation of VWO is straightforward. If you've got a straightforward way of deploying code to all of your test pages, either a good CMS or a TMS, then implementation should be a breeze. There is no tweaking to be done to the code itself, and once deployed it has the flexibility to cope with different VWO modules (tracking, conversion analysis, session analysis) without modification.

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Verified User

Professional in Marketing

Events Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Unbounce and Leadpages are very similar, I really don't have anything bad to say about either. I chose Unbounce over Leadpages because of the customized URL option. From a branding perspective, it looks stronger to have try.mycompany.com/myoffer than something like mycompany.Leadpages.com/myoffer. I just like that and i felt more comfortable knowing that we would be able to take ownership of the url even if it wasn't hosted on our home site

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Director Of Marketing And Business Development

International Junior Golf TourSports, 1-10 employees

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I used Google Optimize when it had just launched. It was therefore not yet a competitor to VWO. I haven't used it in roughly half a year time, so a lot has probably changed.I still use Hotjar for certain features that VWO offers, but which I think function better in Hotjar. I for instance prefer the Hotjar heatmaps, because I can elect to ignore certain elements on the webpage, such as a cookie consent pop up. A simple difference which makes me like Hotjar recordings more is that I can view a recording and click next, rather than going back to the overview and selecting the next recording.

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Michel Zurkirchen

Content manager

Fontem Ventures B.V.Tobacco, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

VWO 8.2

Based on 1 answer

The product seems infinitely scalable for our needs (small business) and we've never had any issue with loading VWO-edited elements. I will say, though, that online customers with ad blockers have been known to not see certain VWO elements as their third-party scripts are disabled.

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Verified User

Strategist in Marketing

Facilities Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Unbounce has allowed us an easy way to offer lead generation and conversion optimization services regardless of what technology the client is using for their website.
ROI is achieved fast, as a single client engagement more than pays for the software each month.

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Founder & CEO

3Bug MediaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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The ability to offer a CRO service is greatly enhanced by VWO, as it allows us to run tests for clients
The editor means to some extent we don't need much developer resource to run the tests, lowering costs of doing so

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Verified User

Analyst in Other

Marketing and Advertising Company, 51-200 employees

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Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

unbounce Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium	$159/mo¹
Enterprise	$399+/mo²
Essential	$79/mo³

150 landing pages, 16 popups & sticky bars
375+ landing pages, 40+ popups and sticky bars
75 landing pages, 8 popups & sticky bars

Additional Pricing Details

The prices listed above are based on paying for plans monthly. If you'd like to see annual prices or compare our plans further, please visit unbounce.com/pricing.

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

VWO Editions & Modules

Edition

TESTING	Get a Demo¹
CONVERSION OPTIMIZATION	Get a Demo²
ENTERPRISE	Get a Demo³
Subscription	$99.00⁴

The classic VWO A/B testing solution
The all-in-one platform for all your optimization needs
Customized solution with advanced AB testing and conversion optimization capabilities
Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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