Optimizely Reviews

1. Deepak Kumar

   | Technical Writer at Einsstark | over 3 years ago
   Good A/B and multivariate testing tool

   Optimizely is a lower cost entry tool for anyone looking to do website testing. While their pricing structure has changed over the years it still is a pretty cost effective solution. It is easy to get tests up and running within 5 minutes once you have code placed on your site.

   I love the drag and drop features of Optimizely. It makes it very easy to make simple changes to do landing page testing for my paid search campaigns. It also frees up dev time for our web team. Also, The findings from Optimizely tests are so valuable for an end customer experience.

   🏁 Competitors: VWO

WebPagetest Reviews

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WebPagetest mentions (51)

• A PageSpeed insight report, but for every page in your domain

  Trust neither. The most optimal option I've found is webpagetest.org Its been quite handy lately. This tool does look interesting. Source: about 1 year ago

• How are you all accurately checking your website load time? Not sure PageSpeedInsights is very helpful.

  Webpagetest.org is another. Pagespeedinsights and lighthouse are great for identifying page load issues to fix, but actual page load times will always vary between the user and your web server. Universal analytics has some page load timings but that's going away soon and nothing afaik is in GA4. I've seen an example of building a page load timer in tag manager and dumping the results into an event. Source: about 1 year ago

• Extreme confusing over Speed Index results -- webpagetest.org

  So I am working on rebuilding our company's site with a new stack. I am running tests using webpagetest.org, and I am having trouble fully understanding the speed index results as well as the film strip view. The page renders quite fast everywhere I test it. Google Lighthouse shows it in the 90s + for performance score, however when I test the page on webpagetest, I get load times of 77 seconds (NOT MS) which is... Source: about 1 year ago

• Does anyone else experience pure ecstasy when they get 100 on Lighthouse? 😩

  Webpagetest.org is great, and checking OP's site they have done an incredible job, I don't think I have ever made or seen an Ecom site this slick. Super clean waterfall view. Source: over 1 year ago

• Performance scores for Google Lighthouse/Insights seem to be very inaccurate

  Thanks for the recommendation regarding webpagetest.org, another user made a similar recommendation so I will check it out. Source: over 1 year ago