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When reviewing VWO tests in your workspace, sometimes you might want to check the goals associated with each test. The Live Preview section under the Review tab of the VWO test dashboard enables you to validate your goals quickly without the need to dig through the test settings.
NOTE: If your workspace is enabled with Data360, you will be able to use Metrics instead of Goals for tracking standard and custom events on your website. However, the concepts explained in this article will parallelly apply to you too.
Procedure
- Login to your VWO account.
- Go to Testing and select a testing type, say A/B.
- From the A/B test dashboard, select the test you want to preview.
- Go to Review > Live Preview.
- From the Variation dropdown, select the variation you want to preview.
- In the Preview URL field, enter the URL on which you want to preview the changes.
NOTE: If your test is running on multiple pages, you can preview them individually. - If you have configured targeting conditions in your campaign, an option to Ignore campaign targeting conditions in previews appears right below the variations dropdown. This option allows you to preview your variations irrespective of the targeting conditions that your campaign targets.
NOTE: By default, this option is enabled. If you wish to preview the variations complying with the targeting conditions, disable this. - To preview your variation, click Preview in a new tab.
- On the test page, a VWO Preview Mode pop-up appears in the bottom right of the window displaying the information whether the goal is triggered or not. To view this information, click on the Campaign ID in the pop-up and check for the Goal triggered attribute under the Logs for page visits.
NOTE:
1. The preview might not display the message at times if it is a redirection page. In such situations, you can verify the goals with the help of cookies. VWO stores the cookies with a "debug” value in front for the Preview mode, like debug_vis_opt_exp_14_combi.
2. In the preview mode, the variation changes, goals, and other variation-specific modifications will be displayed even if the VWO SmartCode times out. Whenever the time-out happens, a warning message is displayed in the preview pop-up. To know more, refer to Why Does VWO Smartcode Time-out and How to Resolve It?
1. The preview might not display the message at times if it is a redirection page. In such situations, you can verify the goals with the help of cookies. VWO stores the cookies with a "debug” value in front for the Preview mode, like debug_vis_opt_exp_14_combi.
2. In the preview mode, the variation changes, goals, and other variation-specific modifications will be displayed even if the VWO SmartCode times out. Whenever the time-out happens, a warning message is displayed in the preview pop-up. To know more, refer to Why Does VWO Smartcode Time-out and How to Resolve It?
How to Check the Cookie Value
- Right-click on the webpage.
- From the context menu, choose the Inspect option.
A panel opens on the page. - In the panel, go to Application > Storage > Cookies, select your test page, and check for the cookie value from the list of cookies.
TIP: To check the cookies on your Chrome browser, you can install the EditThisCookie plug-in.