Getting the most out of your website conversions doesn’t have to be a shot in the dark. By using A/B or multivariable testing you can let your visitors tell you what they respond better to. I use Google’s Website Optimizer to do my A/B testing for my small business clients and running split tests without documenting what results occurred can lead to a disaster when you try to remember several tests back and base decisions on them.
Get a Process for Documenting Your Split Tests
Josh Baker wrote a detailed post on how he documents the processes and results of split testing with a spreadsheet. He wrote out every step he takes for documenting his split tests. To give those visual readers a better idea of what documenting a split test looks like, I created this mind map for you and with his permission I’m sharing this for you to create better processes in documenting the results of your split testing. 
Download the Documenting A/B Testing in Excel Mindmap as a PDF
Do you have an Excel template or sample with the information organized as shown in your mind map?
Inder P Singh
Hi Vanessa, we tried google’s website optimizer but found it to be a little painful.
Just last week I somehow stumbled across http://blog.mixpanel.com/2009/01/ab-testing-your-website-with-mixpanel/ I would suggest anyone take a look, pretty cool stuff
I have been trying to figure out the best way to track split tests. I’ll give this method a go.
The mind map makes things a lot more clear, thanks for sharing. I have been looking into split testing lately, using Logaholic Web Analytics (www.logaholic.com), which seems very easy to use.