Optimizely

Optimizely powers experimentation and feature rollouts, letting you tweak and test changes before rolling them out to everyone.
Optimization

We know this platform is in the spotlight, but the cameras haven’t quite rolled on our official review just yet. We’ve caught glimpses of its feature set—enough to recognize how it might fit into a marketing tech stack—but rather than improvising a shaky first impression, we prefer to spend time doing a thorough review—no early teasers that miss the mark.

If you’re already working with this platform or just considering it, we’re happy to share initial thoughts from similar tools we’ve tested and help you decide if it’s ready for a supporting role or a leading part.

Optimizely powers experimentation and feature rollouts, letting you tweak and test changes before rolling them out to everyone.
Optimization
Advanced
Deep features to work with
Easy Install
Low lift for dev teams
Dev Friendly
Lots of documentation
Founder's Take

Optimizely is aiming to be your one-stop-shop for web optimization and personalization. It covers a lot of ground—from tweaking frontend elements to personalized messaging and built-in analytics—which is a ton of power, but can be overkill for smaller teams.

Robbie Ashton
Founder, Curve Marketing

Why it's used

Optimizely is essentially a front-end optimization and personalization platform geared towards enterprise-level teams looking for a comprehensive way to manage website experiences. It takes what Google Optimize used to do and turns it up a notch, adding personalized messaging, pop-ups, and real-time analytics directly within the platform. Instead of having to code everything from scratch or rely entirely on backend devs, marketers get more freedom to manage content, change messaging dynamically, and deploy quick experiments. If your business leans heavily into personalization or you have substantial first-party data that you want to actively use to modify on-site experiences, Optimizely provides a nice way to integrate and execute on that data without constant backend dev support.

Problems we see

Your tech stack shouldn't suck.

Customer stories

Moonlight

No Internal MarTech
No Systems
Too Many Moving Pieces

Daily Boost

Leadership Too Involved
Everything's a Fire
Stuck in the Weeds

Celestial Marketplace

Marketing-Dev Divide
Conversion Rates
Stuck in the Weeds

Radiant Gowns

Growing Pains
No Internal MarTech
Conversion Rates