Error message is saying that the Optimize Installation is not found. I set it up just as I was instructed, but it continues to give this error in the platform.

The only thing I can think of is that it's having issues with it being a Single Page Application? Or maybe because we're testing it out on a dev site instead of a live site?

Any help is appreciated.

Hi all

I keep seeing different content when I check mobile view (e.g. iphone7)

Not sure if the people who set up page set it up like this or there is something else going on?

Any ideas ?

I have a piece of code in my web page that only shows when the user scrolls to the 75% mark. I tried replacing that code with my variant, but it doesn't seem to display. Is it just not possible to replace this code in cases like this?

Hi everyone, I want to add some HTML to the Header of the page in an A/B test.

Here is the code, when I try to append the HTML in the body it says " Unexpected token '<' " and won't allow it.

(here's the code I want to add:

<script src="https://cdn.useinfluence.co/static/influence-analytics.js?trackingId=INF-18k2o7hjxzmoo15" async></script>

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Thanks everyone!

Hello! Needing some help with a GO test I just launched.

When the user clicks a book now button they get sent to another site where there is GA cross domain tracking already set up.

The problem: I am not seeing any conversions come though. Not sure what I am missing?

Does the google optimize tag need to also be installed on the purchasing domain? Do I need to include the purchase domain in the targeting url?

Thank you I'm advance!

We have an issue. GO is being fired every time I go to a new page. The website was built in SPA/react

Datalayer: They use a datalayer virtualpath that activates every time user go to a new page.

Gtm: this DL was used as a custom event trigger to fire the Google analytics universal tag

Google optimize is associated to the Google analytics tag so every time a user to to a new page then go to a new page, the updatevirtualpath trigger is activated and the GO tag is fired.

Have anyone implemented Google optimize in GTM for single page application websites where they use custom event as trigger in GO ? I tried to test it with all pages trigger and it is fine. Only fires once. But the configuration our client has in a custom event as a trigger and it cant be changed to all pages

I want to create a test on pages of a media site where a specific value is present in the data layer – where author = ‘xxxx’. I want to test whether adding an author headshot and brief bio at the top of the page encourages readers to scroll deeper into the article. I’ve created an experiment with variant for a single author to test this hypothesis.

Because I need the experiment to run only on pages written by that author, and because that author name isn’t present in URL, I tried to use the ‘audience targeting’ functionality in Optimize, as that appears to be the only option for targeting based on data layer.

I’ve found, however, that audience targeting appears to evaluate at the *user* (or session?) level – meaning once a user has seen a page where author = ‘xxxx’ and is shown the variant with headshot, all subsequent pages they view also show the variant, even on pages written by another author (author does not equal ‘xxxx’ in data layer).

Am I doing something wrong here?

I am new to Google Optimize, worked with Adobe Target in the past. I’m trying to create a personalization for a campaign that has various personas. I am using the query parameter to differentiate them.

Is it possible to create different experiences for a variety of audiences (using query strings) under the same Google Optimize experience?

I am just trying to avoid creating 20 different experiences by adding more variants of experiences, since I’m using the same page for all of them.

I am trying to test my current purchase flow that uses cross-domain tracking (data sent to GA), vs a new purchase method that uses a widget (no iframe) that keeps the user on the same site and also send data to GA.

I would be changing the URL of the “buy now” button that sends the user to a different site. My question is:  Can I use my existing  Google Analytics (UA) transactions events as the KPI objective or do I need to set up another one for Google Optimize?

I have changed the button text from 'open a free account' to 'submit now' and changed the color as well from red to blue. However the lead it not getting submitted. Does anyone know what causing is this issue?

Hello, my concern is whether I should install snippet on ALL pages that may or may not participate in my Optimize experiments in future, or add snippet only to few kinds of pages and then add to other pages, only when I plan new experiments. Let's say I install Google Optimize Snippet on all pages of my website to use it later, then I started A/B  (or other kind of) experiment on SELECTED pages. Which of these statements are true?
A. Only selected pages (that take part in my experiment) suffer performance hit (particulary loading time), other pages load [almost] as if they never had Optimize snippet in <head>. 
B. All pages that have Optimize snippet in <head> — may load at least a little slower (depending of several factors) even if particular page is not taking part in any "experiments" in Optimize 
B.1  Selected pages suffer significantly stronger performance hit than pages that take no part in experiments 
I will be grateful for your advices or information, thank you in advance!

Refer to the screenshot, please.

Is this phenomenon common?

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I'm attempting to create an A/B test for a hotel booking site. Right now they are defaulting the view to Grid, but we're very curious whether List view performs better. I know the two pieces of code that need to be swapped, but when I go to edit the HTML and replace through Google Optimize, it says " HTML size exceeds limit. 300874/30720." Any ideas?

Here's the page for reference: https://booking.bowlinehotel.com/ibe/index.aspx?propertyID=16674

Hi all!

Does anyone have any experience with flickers in a client-rendered single-page-application (SPA) or have any recommendations on tackling the issue?

I have a React SPA that is rendered on the client side. I'm having a hard time finding a "correct" way to prevent flickering in an SPA when using the visual editor for A/B tests. We would love for our product team to be able to use the visual editor to minimize developer time. The anti-flicker snippet isn't going to be a viable option because we can't hide the whole page on every activation event.

Is it a fool's errand to try to use the visual editor in a client-rendered SPA?

Thanks!

I've gone through the setup per this documentation, https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/7164339. I was expecting that Optimize would squash the pageview of the original page when the user is sent to the variant, but I'm getting a pageview for the original page and the variant which is causing problems with bounce rate which is the objective to decrease them on this experiment.

We just started using Optimize so perhaps I'm missing something, but don't know what it might be.

I need some help with Google Optimize.

I want to change the text on a main navigation submenu. But to see it, you have to hover on the main nav item, then a drop-down submenu appears. When I put the variant editor in Interactive mode, I can get the submenu to drop-down, but when I toggle back to editor mode, it disappears. Is there a fix for accessing the submenu in editor mode?

Am I missing something on how this works?

Thank you!

We have a dynamically built shopify site that I'm having trouble a/b testing. We've only been able to successfully test copy but not hero images because no matter what trigger I choose, our original image defaults over the variant.

Is there any way around this?

Hi guys, I'm a marketer, and I'm new to this group and GO as a platform.

I wanted to ask you: what made you approach Google Optimize?

Like, having all these other options, what made you choose Google Optimize over others.

Hoping someone can help me with Google Optimize. Whenever I try to edit the HTML of a subnav in Google Optimize, the subnav stops working (it doesn't drop down from the menu anymore). Do you know if there is a fix for that? Should I add javascript or CSS? I'm just not sure why it's not working, since all I'm doing is editing the text in the dropdown. Thanks!

Hi all,

I am trying to show two URLs (redirect test) and to only trigger the experiment to new users. I have tried using audience targeting (as shown in the image). But when I tried to 're-create' a new user using incognito mode (tried closer to 10-12 times). I don't get the test served to me. Has someone faced the same issue or have been successful in conducting experiments on new users?

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When verifying my page this what I get.

Optimize installation not found

The web page doesn't have Optimize snippet for the container ID (GTM-NDRLGCX) installed. You can still use the visual editor to create variants but you can't use Preview mode to test them and visitors won't see your experiment. To run an experiment you must first install Optimize .

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But I have tried everything. I have inserted the code directly into the header theme. I have used pluggins to inject the code. I created my own damn pluggin to insert it. I have used google tag manager. I have deactivated every pluggin one by one to see if one of them was causing the issue.

When debugging with GTM, it shows that it is firing. But google tag assistant is not showing it being fired.

I have disabled all ad blocking extension. I have cleared cookies, I have cleared cache on wp and on siteground. I have even tried it on a different computer in case it was local related.

When you inspect the page code, you can see its clearly in the header.

https://dogletics.org/

I even posted it to googles forum and no one has responded.

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Please help.

Hi there,

I implemented the currency symbol A/B test by Growth Penguin (jeroenwiersma dot com; shout out, great stuff my man).

Thing is, the experiment is not running properly. I checked the cookie to see which variant I was getting served. Once I was dealt the experimental variant, I noticed the currency symbols were still there, when the javascript function should have replaced them with nothing.

Is this something anyone has battled with in the past?

I made an edit to the text variant on my page. In the editing screen it shows up fine, however when I hot preview it doesn't. Is this just some bug or is there something up? We had error signs come up before but they have since been fixed 100%. thanks in advance

Reddit GO hive mind, I could use your help.

My boss is essentially looking to do an A/B test for a page, where we have the normal page...but traffic gets split between that page and a variant page. The site is on webflow (and so is the control page), but the variant page is built on Leadpages.

Would Google Optimize be able to do this? I wasn't sure as one page (and the rest of the website) is on webflow and the variant is on Leadpages (and I was thinking more so the variant being on Leadpages would make this impossible to do).

Can anyone advise what would be the best way to go about doing this? Would Google Optimize actually work for this/am I still able to connect Leadpages or?