Title: [Plugin: A/B Test for WordPress] Variations Not Getting Equal Views
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: A/B Test for WordPress] Variations Not Getting Equal Views

 *  [Lucy Beer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webtrainingwheels/)
 * (@webtrainingwheels)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ab-test-for-wordpress-variations-not-getting-equal-views/)
 * Overall am loving this plugin!
    I have been running a test and am noticing that
   the numbers of views on each variation are wildly different – one of them has
   been shown 3000+ times, the other only 400+ times. I was expecting those numbers
   to be more similar to each other. Is this normal behavior? Or what are the factors
   that would influence when one variation is shown over the other and why it might
   skew this way? Many thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/abtest/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/abtest/)

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 *  [Tanel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tanelkarp/)
 * (@tanelkarp)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ab-test-for-wordpress-variations-not-getting-equal-views/#post-2628470)
 * I’m gonna try the plugin out right away and see if it happens to me too. But 
   as I understood from the intro video, the variations are shown randomly with 
   no balancing taking place(?), which might lead to very unequal page views. If
   that’s the case then it’s definitely something that needs improvement.
 *  Thread Starter [Lucy Beer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webtrainingwheels/)
 * (@webtrainingwheels)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ab-test-for-wordpress-variations-not-getting-equal-views/#post-2628471)
 * Will definitely be interested to see if your experience is the same. Overall 
   I have to say I do love the plugin, and even with the uneven numbers of views,
   in combination with the Google Analytics tracking I implemented, I was still 
   able to gather plenty of data in order to effectively compare and test the elements
   that I wanted to.
 *  [Matt Barrett (corradomatt)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corradomatt/)
 * (@corradomatt)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ab-test-for-wordpress-variations-not-getting-equal-views/#post-2628486)
 * I haven’t used the plugin (just found it this morning) but it looks great! The
   complete random-ness of the variation display doesn’t bother me too much but 
   it would be great if we could set a percentage for each test.
 * Say you wanted variation b to receive around 20% of the views you could set that
   in the admin. I don’t think it would be necessary to have that option be absolute–
   meaning that getting it close to whatever percentage the admin set would be great.
   I think that feature would be especially helpful if there were several (anything
   more than 2) variations being tested.
 * Either way, this plugin looks awesome. I’m anxious to start trying it with some
   of my clients. If it works the way I expect this is something I would gladly 
   pay for, especially if there was good support and a feature like the one I just
   suggested. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Matt Barrett (corradomatt)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corradomatt/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ab-test-for-wordpress-variations-not-getting-equal-views/#post-2628486)
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