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Glossary

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is the discipline of turning more of your existing traffic into buyers - without paying for more clicks. It combines experimentation, friction removal, and intent-aware intervention to move shoppers from interest to purchase.

In context

CRO sits between marketing (which brings traffic) and merchandising (which prices and presents the product). It includes user research, funnel analysis, usability improvements and controlled tests: page speed, checkout friction, trust signals, recommendation relevance, and real-time intervention on shoppers who show abandonment intent.

Conversion rate is completed goals divided by eligible sessions (or another explicitly defined population) in a stated period. A goal can be a purchase, qualified enquiry or signup. As an arithmetic example, moving from 1.8% to 2.5% is a 38.9% relative conversion increase. That is not a revenue forecast: traffic mix, average order value, margin, refunds, and costs still matter.

How Zubby uses this

Several Zubby features target a specific moment in the funnel. AI cart rescue intervenes the moment a shopper signals exit. The AI sales agent answers product questions that would otherwise cause drop-off. Recovery emails follow up after the shopper leaves.

The dashboard attributes revenue back to the interventions Zubby can see (chat, rescue, and recovery), and the A/B testing page supports opening-message and widget-theme tests, plus quality tracking for administrator-configured prompt variants. These use different decision methods; see the guide for scope and statistical limitations rather than treating attributed revenue as causal lift.

A/B testing in Zubby