Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When it comes to WordPress, the Holy Grail of do-it-yourself Content Management Systems (CMS), updating isn’t just a good idea: it’s a critical component of using the site in the most efficient and secure way. And if you took your site offline for a major update, do a test of your pages before going live again.

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NTEN

JULY 10, 2013

What if you could find out the type of content that visitors to your site liked best without having to directly ask them? A/B testing can help you find out what type of content is most effective on your site! a/b testing nten Web Sites websites'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard many (many) times that all your nonprofit’s blog and site content should be optimized to drive traffic. When a search engine crawls your site, it sees words and code—not the image. ” This name helps search engines understand and index your images more effectively, improving your site’s SEO.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Sometimes the answer isn't just one metric, but in a combination of metrics that you can find by testing your messages. Amy Sample Ward Data E-mail nptech nten Social Media Strategy Web Sites Communications'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Installing a robust SSL certificate on your website helps protect confidential contact and financial information when when donors make an online donation and builds trust among users by assuring them that your site is secure. In addition, it’s worth noting that Google only indexes websites that have SSL certificates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

WP Engine’s one-click staging for testing plugins or new features. Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Your site can go down for days. Daily backups as well.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Testing is cheaper than getting it wrong! Be sure to always be testing to get the absolute best response from your online community. A critical component in this is a kick-ass testing strategy–a simple, quick, and free mechanism of obtaining qualitative feedback on what''s working. Lawrence Grodeska. Nonprofit Community Manager.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Testing is cheaper than getting it wrong! Be sure to always be testing to get the absolute best response from your online community. A critical component in this is a kick-ass testing strategy–a simple, quick, and free mechanism of obtaining qualitative feedback on what's working. Lawrence Grodeska. Nonprofit Community Manager.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

SEO – Search Engine Optimization – (if you don’t already know) is the practice of improving and promoting a website in order to increase the number of visitors the site receives from search engines. Basically, it’s about ranking higher in the search engine results for keywords related to your site. The more the better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 11, 2017

Will you be able to expand the theme and hence your site as your business evolves and grows? Lastly, the multi-purpose Elbrus theme has a gorgeous animation feature that works as a visitor to your site scrolls down through your content. Will a bare-bones theme give enough choices for your clientele?

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VisionLink

MAY 16, 2012

With special thanks to our host Fermin Avila at the United Way of Denver, we enjoyed a wonderful on-site visit with the staff of the United Way 2-1-1 Call Center today. While we have done this before, this was the first time we have visited their call center as an entire staff.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about usability testing your website from guest author Brandon Granger, Senior Interaction Designer for Blackbaud. In the first part of this series , we talked about why you should test your website and donation form with real supporters. Makes sense, no? Some tips for creating tasks….

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If you’re doing an A/B test or targeting your email to a certain segment, it will also be difficult to refine your list without real-time access to your data. Duration – looks at how long people stay on certain pages in your site. Testing – You can always run an A/B test to see what is working best.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Look for these six signs that your nonprofit needs a new website, and find tools and tips to better assess how your current site is doing. You can use it to see how much traffic you’re getting, where those people are coming from, and how they are using your site. 1) Website traffic isn’t great—the quantity or quality. Give it a try!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

From what we know of the changes so far, the biggest impacts will be on open rate statistics and the ability to A/B test subject lines and preheader text. Now is a great time to start A/B testing copy for subject lines and preheader text as often as you can. Email Opens + User IPs. Use your UTMs. Follow Apple’s Announcements.

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Media Cause

JUNE 27, 2023

Both of these are accurate—and cost-effective—ways to engage with your audience through ads, but what if you want to reach individuals who haven’t visited your site yet or signed up for your email list? brand awareness, traffic to the site, a conversion action) Better audience + placement targeting (showing up on newsfeed, stories, etc.)

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

In addition, our user experience team conducts extensive research—surveys, interviews, usability tests, and data analysis on specific areas where we know there is a need. And as our design and engineering teams build, we test. And with each significant release, we conduct more formal testing.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

Are you planning to conduct an aggressive outreach to potential candidates or just post the position on social media sites and hope candidates apply? Approach potential candidates and test their interest in this new opportunity and persuade strong candidates to consider the new opportunity.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

This is the fourth part in my series about learning how to test the usability of your online donation form and website with real donors. Part one discussed why to usability test , part two outlined crafting your test , and part three gave best practices for recruiting participants. Today, we gear up for your big test day!

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

If your site is out of date, you’re missing out on valuable support from your visitors. Your site doesn’t engage your audience. Your site isn’t accessible. You can use the revamp process to update multiple pages or aspects to give your site a uniform, cohesive look. Your site doesn’t engage your audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

Race Forward’s digital footprint now includes four main properties, including Colorlines , a daily news site. As communications director Melissa Franqui explains, “Any communications department, not only ours, has to be continuously asking, is the site communicating our mission, our current work, and our values to our intended audiences?”.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

For fun, you can also offer a bounty for any spelling or grammar errors found on the site. QA and user flow testing Interns can walk through the main user flows of your website and note where there is confusion. Website content creation Beyond updating, consider whole new sections of the site that could be researched and created.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

To keep it bite-sized, start by looking at: Behavior > Site content > Landing pages. These pages may represent a potential donor’s very first impression of your organization so be sure they’re optimized to drive deeper engagement on your site. Behavior > Site content > Exit pages. A/B Testing.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 11, 2009

Several friends who have decided to explore WordPress have asked how I built my site. That took some research, and was easier once WP was installed in a test environment. I now know enough to tweak the site myself, but sometimes need guidance from Robyn. 5) Robyn copied the content from my old site to the new one.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This year, as an important resource and add-on to the 2014 Millennial Impact Report, we’ve worked with Millennial employees across the country to conduct video-recording user tests. But here are some things we’ve learned from these user tests: Millennial employees were drawn to good design, but frustrated by lack of information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. Term will help you identify which variation of content got someone to your site – which is super helpful for Search Ads tracking or analysing the effectiveness of a specific ad in your campaign ! .

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Association Analytics

JULY 27, 2021

When a solid taxonomy is implemented correctly, it can improve your site’s SEO. The taxonomy, coupled with good website navigation, will make it easier for people to find relevant content and increase traffic to your site and pageviews. Test and Learn! For smaller projects, test to see if the content resonates with your members.

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sgEngage

JULY 13, 2021

It’s the skeleton, or bones of the site that really holds it all together. IA defines the navigation of the site and the layout of all the key design elements. My team and I like to conduct card sort tests to help define the navigation for a website. Information Architecture (IA) is the structural design of a website.

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VisionLink

JULY 19, 2013

This is important because the more people are able to use your site, the more they will learn about your cause, donate, and give support. Want to get some ideas for testing your organization''s site? Do a user test of the VisionLink website and see how we are utilizing tips from this post to improve our organization''s site!

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Byte Technology recommends testing your site on the new version first on a staging environment and identifying and applying fixes there before going to production. Upgrading the PHP version on your website hosting service is a manual step and not automated as incompatibilities and errors are common with this change.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2012

With some of the new features in Google Analytics , you can see more than ever what visitors to your site are doing. She'll present four cheap and fast methods to solicit qualitative feedback from your users at our upcoming webinar, " Website Usability Testing 101 ". > The bigger question, sometimes, is why ?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For example, if you’re using a chatbot to answer queries on your site, you could measure response time, user satisfaction, and query resolution. Campaign testing: Encourage team members to conduct A/B testing and iterative experiments to optimize AI-driven fundraising campaigns.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

So, now’s the time, before the holiday frenzy begins, to make sure your website is ready so visitors can easily find what they’re looking for on your site, they like what they see, and they click on that “Donate Now” button. At a minimum, you’ll prevent people from bouncing away from your site because it’s too old or clunky.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Test your current site: Use online or onsite usability testing to learn what information your users look for on your website and how easy it is for them to find it. and identify their top 3 tasks on your site. You have a site map that resonates with the way your audience accesses information.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 1, 2021

While most event venues have updated their technology, you may have to pay more for early access to the venue to test equipment or for the additional power supply needed. Supported by a reliable on-site networking engineering team in case of outages. A test or ping speed should run around 30ms or less and a rate of 2MB per 100 users.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2013

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