Title: Cannot even start a test
Last modified: December 6, 2021

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# Cannot even start a test

 *  Resolved [cutu234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cutu234/)
 * (@cutu234)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-even-start-a-test/)
 * I apologize for being slow, but even after 10+ years of experience working with
   WordPress I wasn’t able to even start a test. Yes, I read the documenation, but
   it didn’t help.
 * So, I created a test, created a variant, saved and started the test. Now, I would
   expect to see both variants randomly. But no, I always see the variant but never
   the original. I am not logged in and open the page in a new private browser tabs.
 * What am I missing?
 * Second, rather than monitoring an event like a click I would prefer to simply
   measure the time users are on the orignal page vs. the variant. Is this posssible?
 * Thank you!

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 *  Thread Starter [cutu234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cutu234/)
 * (@cutu234)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-even-start-a-test/#post-15137282)
 * Sorry, it seems that I had to close the browser completely even in private mode.
   Didn’t know that.
 * To the second question: Could the query ?nab=xxx be tracked using Google Analytics?
 *  Plugin Author [David Aguilera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davilera/)
 * (@davilera)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-even-start-a-test/#post-15137762)
 * `I created a test, created a variant, saved and started the test. Now, I would
   expect to see both variants randomly. But no, I always see the variant but never
   the original. I am not logged in and open the page in a new private browser tabs.`
 * Once a user is assigned a variant, they’re supposed to see the same variant always.
   To do so, we store a cookie in their browser. You need to clean the cookies if
   you want to randomly get a new variant.
 * `Second, rather than monitoring an event like a click I would prefer to simply
   measure the time users are on the orignal page vs. the variant. Is this posssible?`
 * Unfortunately, that’s not possible. Our plugin tests two versions of a certain
   page, computes their respective conversion rates, and tells you which one is 
   better. That is, it tracks things like “in variant A, 2% of users performed the
   conversion action; in variant B, 3% of users did” and then it tells you “it looks
   like variant B is better than A” (assuming the results are statistically significant).
   We don’t have such a metric for “time spent on page.”
 * `To the second question: Could the query ?nab=xxx be tracked using Google Analytics?`
 * Sure! I think GA already does anyway. There’s a setting in our plugin to “hide”
   the query args after an alternative is loaded. Just make sure this setting is
   disabled, so that the `nab` query arg is in the URL and, thus, GA can track it.
 * However, please notice this GA integration is a lucky side-effect of how our 
   plugin works. We’ve never implemented specific GA integration features in our
   plugin. I hope it’s enough for you, though!
 *  Thread Starter [cutu234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cutu234/)
 * (@cutu234)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-even-start-a-test/#post-15138506)
 * Thank you very much. I’ve just tested it. It works fine in Google Analytics. 
   I can search the visited pages for ?nab=. This gives me all the information needed.
   We will go PRO, I think.
 *  Plugin Author [David Aguilera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davilera/)
 * (@davilera)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-even-start-a-test/#post-15138614)
 * Awesome! I’m glad to hear 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [David Aguilera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davilera/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-even-start-a-test/#post-15138614)
 * Status: resolved