VWO (or Visual Website Optimizer) is one of the providers we review in our Growth Marketing Platform article as a provider as a true growth marketing platform provider. The software is made by the Delhi-based SaaS software company Wingify.
The Visual Website Optimizer Platform
Whilst we are only reviewing the VWO Plan product here, the Visual Website Optimizer platform comprises a range of 9 products. To support a growth marketing strategy, the workflow would be to gather observations (using VWO Insights), turn these observations into hypotheses (using VWO Plan), and test your hypotheses (using VWO Testing).
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What is Visual Website Optimizer Plan?
VWO Plan provides functionality for collecting and managing ideas to improve website performance.
“With VWO Plan, your teams can collaboratively discover growth opportunities in your visitors’ journey, build a pipeline of high-impact experimentation ideas and see them all the way to completion. Warner Music Group increased their testing velocity by 3X using VWO. So can you.”
VWO Plan includes 3 core pieces of functionality:
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Observations
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Hypothesis
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Ideas
Visual Website Optimizer Plan features
1. Observations
VWO Observations is an area to collect and manage insights and observations. These are things you have seen or experienced that could improve your website or application experience. Observations can then be tested by creating a hypothesis.
Use Observation to collect data on user behavior that can help you understand the motivations and apprehensions of visitors on your website.
Observations are the basis of identifying common patterns or problems that can eventually lead you to potential optimization opportunities. Link one or more observations as evidence to construct your test hypothesis.
2. Hypotheses
Hypotheses enable you to manage and prioritize testing ideas, similar to Growth Method and other growth marketing platforms.
Build a hypothesis to describe a proposed change and the potential impact of that change on your website conversions.
For example, you assume that increasing CTA button size and changing colors attract more Signups. To test this hypothesis, you would run a campaign and set up your goals to test if your assumptions are true.
New hypotheses are entered in a structured format, prioritization is based on the ICE framework (Impact, Confidence, and Effort). A strong point is the need to tie a hypothesis to an existing observation.
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Backlog
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Selected for Testing
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Testing
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Completed
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Archived
3. Ideas
The ideas section (branded the “Idea Factory”) includes Ideas Gallery, Case Studies, and Resources and Articles. At the time of writing, there are 66 ideas filterable by industry, implementation time, and element tested.
Many of the ideas seem rather dated and lack detail, with some being a single screenshot with minimal supporting text.
VWO Chrome Extension
The main function of the VWO Chrome Extension is the ability to add observations from anywhere.
“If you notice anything interesting on your website, quickly make a note and create an observation. The observation is saved along with a screenshot of the page and can be referred to whenever required.”
Final Thoughts
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