Question about server resource usage

The load on the server won’t be much different whether you use javascript or not. The same things happen, it just depends on when they happen. If you are using any sort of page caching, you must use the javascript method for the plugin to accurately record conversions.

2 hours seems like a good number for you. This means that the server will do it’s statistical calculations once every two hours, during the other requests it uses a much simpler and faster method.

That’s great Jason, thanks very much for your help. Great plugin, very glad I came across it.

Hi Jason, sorry, a couple of follow up questions:

What happens to social shares once the plugin starts to display the best title? Do new shares still display the original title?

Also, how soon is the best title “finalized”, in the sense that it’s displayed more frequently or exclusively to visitors? Or does the plugin keep serving alternate versions until the less popular ones are actually deleted by me?

Thanks again for your help,

J.

Unfortunately, there is no way to change a social media post after it’s been shared. The social media sharing aspect of title testing is difficult to manage since your site has no control over the post once it’s been shared. This means that someone clicking on a post from Facebook may see a different title than the one they clicked. This usually isn’t a problem though, since the meaning of the title should be relatively equivalent.
It’s important to note that people who come to the post directly from a social media site are not counted among the ‘views’ since they didn’t see the title printed elsewhere on the site. This keeps the score of your titles more accurate.

The free version of the plugin won’t automatically stop the experiments. You are right though, that worse performing titles will be shown less and less often. How long this takes depends on your traffic levels, the titles performance, and your recalculation interval. The premium version (which we can’t discuss on these forums) does have that feature. You can get more information from the website: https://wpexperiments.com

I understand. Thanks again for your help Jason, much appreciated. Marking as resolved.