Using Vanity with page caching

[Lennon Rubin]

I'm using Vanity to do my A/B testing but I also have page caching for the pages the experiment is running on. Because of that, the user will actually see both options as they navigate around the site. I would be fine with that however I know that Vanity keeps track of which option a single user is seeing and attempts to show that same option throughout the site.

So what I'm wondering is, let's say a user comes to my site and views Option A. Vanity (I think) records them as an "Option A" participant. Now that user goes to a different cached page, and because of the caching they see Option B and "converts".

Is vanity going to record that user as an "Option A" conversion or an "Option B" conversion?

[Assaf Arkin]

You have to either ask Vanity which option to show,or tell it which option your showing. Either one requires a method call to capture the visitor. If you just serve HTML to the user, Vanity has no idea which option they were exposed to.

If you want to run a solid experiment, stick with one option per participant, otherwise it's a random guess which option converted.

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