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In marketing and business intelligence, A/B testing is a term for a randomized experiment with two variants, A and B, which are the control and variation in the controlled experiment.

A/B testing is a form of statistical hypothesis testing with two variants leading to the technical term, two-sample hypothesis testing, used in the field of statistics.

Other terms used for this method include bucket tests and split.run testing.

These terms can have a wider applicability to more than two variants, but the term A/B testing is also frequently used in the context of testing more than two variants.

In online settings, such as web design (especially user experience design), the goal of A/B testing is to identify changes to web pages that increase or maximize an outcome of interest (e.g., click-through rate for a banner advertisement).

Formally the current web page is associated with the null hypothesis.

A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of a single variable typically by testing a subject's response to variable A against variable B, and determining which of the two variables is more effective.

In internet marketing, conversion optimization, or conversion rate optimization (CRO) is a system for increasing the percentage of visitors to a website that convert into customers, or more generally, take any desired action on a webpage.

It is commonly referred to as CRO.

Restricting access to Internet content via a paid subscription is often called a paywall.

Partial information such as an abstract of content may be available free of charge.

Paywalls that allow minimal to no access to content without subscription could be called "hard"; those that allow more flexibility in what users can view without subscribing, such as selective free content, or a limited number of articles per month, or the sampling of several pages of a book or paragraphs of an article are "soft" paywalls.

Newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites in the mid-2010s to increase their revenue, which had been diminishing due to a decline in paid print readership and advertising revenue.

Academic papers are often subject to a paywall, and available typically to researchers via academic libraries that subscribe.

Market segmentation is the process of dividing a broad consumer or business market, normally consisting of existing and potential customers, into sub-groups of consumers (known as segments) based on some type of shared characteristics.

In dividing or segmenting markets, researchers typically look for shared characteristics such as common needs, common interests, similar lifestyles or even similar demographic profiles.

The overall aim of segmentation is to identify high yield segments – that is, those segments that are likely to be the most profitable or that have growth potential – so that these can be selected for special attention (i.e. become target markets).

Personalization, sometimes known as customization, consists of tailoring a service or a product to accommodate specific individuals, sometimes tied to groups or segments of individuals.

A wide variety of organizations use personalization to improve customer satisfaction, digital sales conversion, marketing results, branding, and improved website metrics as well as for advertising.

Personalization is a key element in social media and recommender systems.