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Quick and Dirty A/B testing

posted by kris 9 years ago

I am looking at doing some quick and dirty A/B split tests.

I'm not sure whether it would be better to do this with sessions or cookies. I will need the A/B assignment to last at least one week.

Any opinions?

Well, session use cookies, but also store other user info. Would you want to keep the user logged in for a week? Do you have so many connections that a week worth of session files is going to use a lot of disk space?

I would probably opt for using a cookie since it is more self-contained, but I have very limited experience doing A/B testing, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

posted by wbond 8 years ago