Weak on both counts. Headline tests win 5% in Education, below the 8% these tests manage across all industries and below the 9% that Education manages across all change types. There is usually something better to spend a test slot on.
The strongest change type we can measure in Education is Styling at 13% on 47 tests tests.
Small winner set. Few of these tests cleared the bar. The 95% interval on that win rate runs 2% to 12%, so read the figure as directional.
| Education | all industries | |
|---|---|---|
| Tests analysed | 50+ | 500+ |
| Beat control | 5% | 8% |
| No measurable difference | 84% | — |
| Lost to control | 11% | — |
| Median lift when it won | not reported | — |
Median traffic per variant was 1271 visitors. Most ran on landing pages (30), product pages (22), homepages (21).
| change type | win rate in Education | tests |
|---|---|---|
| Styling | 13% | 47 tests |
| Body copy | 7% | 50+ |
| Split URL | 6% | 100+ |
| Headline (this page) | 5% | 50+ |
A win rate only means as much as the thing being counted, so this is what these tests were actually optimising for.
| measured outcome | share of tests |
|---|---|
| Lead / form submission | 27% |
| Signup / registration | 25% |
| Purchase / order complete | 21% |
| On-page click / engagement | 8% |
Outcomes below 5% of the set are not listed, so these do not sum to 100. How the outcome was measured moves the win rate a lot — see the methodology.
These rates are not like-for-like. How often a test wins depends partly on what it chose to measure: a goal that records a soft signal — a click, a scroll — clears the bar more often than one that records a purchase. Across this data, tests measured against a proxy goal win 13%, against 9% for tests measured against a business outcome.
Categories differ a lot in that mix — proxy goals account for anywhere from 2% to 41% of a category's tests.
Hold the metric fixed and the spread narrows sharply. Comparing only tests measured against a business outcome, the gap between the highest and lowest category falls from 9 points to 6 — at which point the intervals overlap and the categories are not statistically distinguishable.
So read the table as a description of what happened, not as a ranking of what works. If you want the comparison to mean something, compare categories that were measured the same way. The methodology page has the full breakdown.
The industry overview is at Education benchmarks; rates across all industries are on the headline benchmark.
The main heading is rewritten. Structure, styling and every other element stay put.
The headline changed from online master's programs to online postgraduate programs with official recognition.
The fear-based headline was replaced with a full-width hero that used a benefit-focused hours headline, highlighted text, and an embedded testimonial or video prompt.
The headline changed from price-framing copy to a single-payment message that said access lasted for life.
The headline changed from a generic line to a numbered step prompt inviting users to begin their scholarship search process.
The headline changed from a shorter message to a three-part visibility, practice, and feedback message, the subhead was adjusted to match, and the hero image and worksheet examples were replaced with a single annotated math example and feedback mascot.
It replaced a left-aligned split layout with a centered full-width headline, added subheadline copy, shortened the form to three fields, and changed the CTA to a demo-scheduling label.
The teaser title, subtitle, and CTA button text were changed to new wording that promoted sign-up and a low-cost trial.
These are individual tests, not rules. Each ran on one site, with one audience, against one page we are not showing you. They are picked to be illustrative rather than sampled at random, and a change that won here can lose on your page for reasons none of this captures. Read them as prompts for what to test, not as findings to copy.
This is every Mida account that ran a readable test — in-house marketers, founders, product teams, and agencies working on client sites. Nothing here is filtered by who ran the experiment or how experienced they are.
Low win rates are normal in experimentation, including at the top end. Microsoft's experimentation team, reporting on its own platform, found that only about one third of ideas improve the metric they were designed to improve — and that roughly another third actively hurt it. That is a dedicated experimentation organisation with research, prioritisation and review behind every test.
A mixed population like this one runs below that. The gap is roughly what disciplined practice buys you: ideas grounded in research rather than opinion, one variable at a time, and tests built so the result can actually be read.
So treat these as a general base rate, not a target. If you would rather not close that gap the slow way, find a CRO agency in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands or Australia — or browse every region.
A win is a variant that beat its control on that test's primary goal with a statistically significant result. Tests that never got enough traffic to say anything either way are excluded. The methodology has the full detail, including what these numbers cannot tell you.
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