Three rounds of A/B testing for an online course subscription business: state-specific paid search pages, the subscription checkout, and the homepage. Most changes won. The ones that didn't were just as useful.
Every state runs its own paid campaign against a shared landing page. The redesigned template was tested across all of them. The few that dipped had no deadline that month.
| State | Original CVR | New CVR | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 1.37% | 3.62% | +164.1% | |
| Kansas | 2.65% | 4.36% | +64.5% | |
| New York | 0.92% | 1.42% | +54.8% | |
| Florida | 2.33% | 2.79% | +19.8% | |
| Missouri | 3.25% | 3.54% | +8.6% | |
| Utah | 2.90% | 3.00% | +3.1% | |
| Pennsylvania | 3.19% | 2.48% | −22.4% | |
| West Virginia | 6.82% | 3.53% | −48.2% | |
| 6 improved · 2 declined · a sample of the state pages tested | ||||
The subscription page is never really done. It's tested on an ongoing basis, with each result deciding what gets tried next.
Same layout, same design. Only the button wording changed, from Select Pass to Buy Now.
| Variant | Sessions | Conversions | CVR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select Pass | 4,864 | 14 | 0.29% |
| Buy Now | 4,452 | 25 | 0.56% |
+95.2% conversion rate
The category grid sat mid-page, below a product carousel, where few visitors reached it. Moving it directly under the hero put the most-used entry point where attention already was.
Across state landing pages, the checkout, and the homepage, every change was one hypothesis tested against real traffic. The pages that dipped weren't failures. They marked where a redesign wasn't the lever, or where timing mattered more than layout.
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