A/B & Multivariate Testing

Choosing the Right Success Metric

Picking the wrong KPI can steer a test off‑course. See if you can spot the metrics that truly matter.

For subscription services, monthly recurring revenue is preferred over click‑through rate because it directly reflects ______.

gif animation

bottom‑line business value

font preference

cache size

Tying experiments to revenue guards against vanity wins.

Metrics susceptible to external seasonality violate the testing assumption of ______.

independent and identically distributed samples

serverless execution

cache invalidation

CSS isolation

IID violations inject noise unrelated to the change.

A metric like average order value can be distorted by outliers; a common remedy is to analyse the ______ instead.

RGB gamut

total CSS bytes

geo hash

median order value

Medians cut the influence of extreme spends.

Choosing too many metrics inflates the chance of false discovery due to ______.

multiple comparisons

DNS latency

dynamic pricing

CDN routing

Each extra metric adds another hypothesis to test.

In e‑commerce, add‑to‑cart rate is a useful proxy but should ultimately be confirmed with ______.

server ping

hover state

completed purchase conversion

scroll depth

Purchase captures actual revenue not just intent.

Lagging metrics like churn can be complemented with leading indicators to ______ experiment cycles.

slow down

decentralise

encrypt

speed up

Early signals let teams iterate before final outcomes mature.

Ratio metrics (e.g., revenue per user) can be unstable at low traffic because the denominator is small; an alternative is to track ______.

JPEG compression

SSL handshakes

absolute counts with exposure as covariate

GPU usage

Using counts plus modeling adjusts for user numbers explicitly.

For content sites, time on page can be misleading without accounting for ______ tabs.

database

excel

background/inactive

server

Users may leave a tab open inflating the metric.

When privacy regulations restrict user‑level tracking, platforms often shift to ______ level metrics.

aggregate cohort

MAC address

SMTP

pixel colour

Aggregations comply with anonymity thresholds.

North star metrics should capture both value to the user and value to the ______.

business

keyboard

cloud

stylesheet

Balancing perspectives discourages metric gaming.

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