Companies and Conversions: Marie Curie increased donations by 14% using Website Optimiser
November 23rd, 2009 | Published in Google Conversions
This week we wanted to share how Marie Curie improved its website performance using Website Optimiser and saw a 14% increase in donations on the site!
Marie Curie felt its 'Make a donation' page could be improved to increase conversion rates.
The organisation's web team had some ideas on changes that might result in more donations:
- a simplified donation form
- removing unnecessary information from the page
- making the purpose of the page clearer
In order to see if their hypotheses were correct they decided to use Google Website Optimiser. Marie Curie ran a straightforward A/B test, and within a few weeks saw that the new layout had already increased donations by 14%.
Original 'donate' page
New 'donate' page
Marie Curie's web manager, Victoria Ludlow describes the results:
"our hypothesis was correct, the new page did improve our donations. However we never expected to improve them by that much. We are absolutely delighted with the results".
What can you do next?
Could you simplify your lead/contact form?
Do you provide all necessary information on your product pages so that it's easier for customers to make their purchase decision?
To see examples of what you could test on your new variation, read our 'Make your website work' ebook and check out this previous Conversion Room blog post.
Once you know what to test, you can set up an A/B test using Google Website Optimiser by following these steps. When your test has been running for at least two weeks, you can see check your reports to see which of the variations performs best.
You can then implement these changes, monitor your conversions and look for other pages or page elements to test next!
Marie Curie are just one of a number of Google Website Optimiser users that have shared their conversion improvement success stories with us. You can read more about others companies in the 'Learn' tab above.You can also read more about our Google Conversion Professionals programme in the 'Expert Help' tab and see how they could help you improve your site's profitability.
Posted by Faustina Clifford, Google Team.