Preview and QA a Content Experiment

Pre-launch checklist for content experiments in Elevate A/B Testing, covering visual checks, responsive behavior, interactions, and multi page scope.

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Work through this in Preview, before launching. Content experiments change the page for real visitors as it loads, so a broken variation is visible immediately.

Visual check

Check	What passes
Changes are present	Every edit you made appears on the variation
Control is untouched	The control looks exactly like your current live page
Only intended differences	Nothing else moved, resized, or restyled as a side effect
Mobile	Every variation renders correctly at phone width
Desktop	Every variation renders correctly at full width
Text fits	Edited text does not overflow, wrap badly, or push other elements out of place

Text length is the usual culprit. A headline two words longer than the original can break a layout that was built around the original.

Interaction check

Check	What passes
Buttons and links	Everything you restyled still works when clicked
Forms	Any form on the page still submits
Hidden elements	Nothing you hid was load bearing. The page layout closes up cleanly.
Apps and widgets	Reviews, chat, upsells, and subscription selectors still appear and function
New elements	Anything you added behaves correctly and does not overlap existing content

Hiding an element is the most common way to break a page silently. If you hid a container rather than the thing inside it, you may have removed more than you intended.

Code check

If your variation carries custom JavaScript or CSS:

Check	What passes
No console errors	The browser console is clean on the variation
No theme conflicts	Existing theme behaviour still works
Speed	The variation does not load noticeably slower than the control

Scope check

Check	What passes
Right pages	The changes appear on the pages you edited and nowhere else
Across a multi page experiment	If you edited several pages, check each one
Consistency	If the same change was meant to appear on several pages, it appears on all of them

Tracking check

Check	What passes
Events are arriving	Visiting an affected page produces an event
Correct variation recorded	The event records the version you actually saw
Custom event fires	If you added a custom metric, the action produces the event

Experiment data is cached and refreshes every two hours. Select the refresh control next to Experiment Settings to pull live data.

Next steps

• Troubleshooting Content Experiments