We’ve been hard at work over the last 3 weeks to bring you an even better Trailhead. This release is huge!

(Deep breathe)

Free Trail

By far the biggest change in this release is that everyone gets one free test. We want you help you understand what’s happening on your site, make changes, and test again. Giving you a free test is an important first step, and we hope that you’ll love it enough to keep using Trailhead to test your improvements.

Simplified Pricing

We carefully studied results that our customers were getting and noticed that there wasn’t much difference between a 250 session test and a 2,000 session test (other than the bigger test can take a really long time). So, we dropped the two test sizes. Now there is just one 1,000 session test. Oh, and we made it cheaper. It’s now just $9 bucks.

Tools for repeat testers

We added two huge features for customers who want to test often: Test scheduling and pre-paid tests. When setting up a new test you have the option to run it immediately or schedule it for a specific time and day in the future. There is no automatic recurrence yet, but look for it in our next release.

Customers can also buy bulk packs of test at a really deep discount. Test are only $1 a piece if you buy 50!

Sign up

We made a lot of progress in improving the experience and usability of Trailhead this release. We were able to simplify our sign-up $rarr; first test flow and eliminate 2 screens. You can literally set up a new test in about 3 seconds. 

New Dashboard

The dashboard is much better than our previous release. We’ve moved to a tabular layout that will fare much better for users who have a lot of test. We also eliminated the intermediate screen between the dashboard and the test viewer. It was confusing and clunky, so we got rid of it.

New Test Viewer

The test viewer has a whole new look and feel. The test options are now fixed to the right-side of the window and stay out of your way.

You’ll also noticed that we changed the “clicks” representation from the big gray ‘X’ to a more precise yellow triangle. We felt that the X got really messy when clicks were clustered closely together. The triangle is much more precise and appealing.