We are easing into using Profile Scripts.... are there be...

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@Rob_Hornick How do you keep everything manageable and maintainable when scaling up the number of A/B tests and setting up for personalisation at scale across multiple customer journeys? Any advice or best practices you can share?

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@Rob_Hornick We are easing into using Profile Scripts.... are there best practices around how many is too many?  At what point do they impact page load performance?  Etc.

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Hey, @Rob_Hornick any preference or best practices on using auto-allocate vs. sample size calculator for a/b testing?

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Good morning and welcome! Looking forward to chatting with you all today. I'll begin answering questions shortly!

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@Rob_Hornick 

I'm struggling with understanding how to get Auto-Target or Auto Personalization to use our custom data attriubutes.  We have a number of items we send to Analytics that we would like it to consider.  1) How do we teach the ML algorithm about these.  2) Is it configurable in any way?   Thx!

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@FDmAmG wrote:

Hey, @Rob_Hornick any preference or best practices on using auto-allocate vs. sample size calculator for a/b testing?

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Hi @FDmAmG ! Auto-Allocate can be used almost any time you would run an A/B test, but it can be especially good to use in the following circumstances:

• You have a limited amount of time for your test. This can be the case when a test is only relevant for a period of time (e.g. a promotion tied to President's Day Weekend or "The Big Game", or a landing page associated with an external email blast or a conference). Auto-Allocate begins shifting traffic to winners before the result is final and allows you to realize more lift in a shorter amount of time than traditional A/B tests.
• You want to test more than two experiences. Traditional A/B/N test methodologies require much more traffic when you add more experiences. Because Auto-Allocate reduces traffic to losing experiences, it's able to do a better job of finding differences between winning experiences.
• You don't want to worry about the statistical calculations. This one is self-explanatory!

You might want to run a classical A/B test under the following circumstances:

• You need a high degree of confidence about the magnitude of the difference between experiences. Because Auto-Allocate shifts traffic to winners, you may have a wider degree of uncertainty around the "true" conversion rate (or revenue, etc.) of a losing experience.
• When it's important to you to say that "there was no winner" within a fixed timeframe. Traditional fixed-horizon A/B testing has a defined end date for the test and at the end of that timeframe, you can say "We did not reject the null hypothesis; version B was not proven better than version A." Auto-Allocate doesn't have a fixed end date in mind, so you might be left with a less definite conclusion.

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@kadcock Here's a helpful link, it mentions all the limits in Adobe Target: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/target/using/troubleshoot/target-limits.html?lang=en#orderid...

Specifically the section:

Profile scripts

• Recommended limit of active profile scripts: 300

• Recommended limit of total profile scripts per account: 2,000

Hope that helps!

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The last bulleted item was something I hadn't considered! Thank you @Rob_Hornick 

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@ToddWeston  @Rob_Hornick Re: using custom attributes in Auto Personalization-- it seems like Target is pulling in custom analytics segments shared to the Experience Cloud, but no other Analytics data other than standard metrics. We are specifically interested in key custom events that have been set up to define success actions on the site.