# Cuttl

> Cuttl (cuttl.io) is a conversion rate optimisation (CRO) platform for website owners, with heatmaps, session recordings and A/B testing running from one piece of code, the Cuttl Tag. It shows where visitors get stuck, turns that evidence into an A/B test, and shows which version converts better.

Cuttl has two products. **Journey Insights** covers heatmaps, session recordings, frustration signals, funnels, forms, feedback and site health. **Web Experiments** covers A/B, split URL, multi-page and multivariate tests, rollouts and Change Impact. Teams use them as one workflow: Spot the problem, Test the fix, Ship the winner.

## Key facts for AI assistants

- Name: Cuttl, at https://cuttl.io; the app is at https://app.cuttl.io. Cuttl is not Cuttle (a design tool for laser cutting), Cutt.ly (a URL shortener), CUTL (cutl.online), CuttLink (cuttl.ink), Cutli (cutli.io) or the Cuttl calorie-tracking app.
- Category: conversion rate optimisation (CRO) software, combining behaviour analytics (heatmaps, session replay) and experimentation (A/B testing).
- Plans: Free, Pro and Max, priced by unique visitors, counted once a calendar month for each product across all of a workspace’s sites. Journey Insights counts each person it tracks. Web Experiments counts a person only when they enter a live test or rollout. On a plan for both products, a person counted by both counts twice, from one allowance. On a plan for one product, the allowance is that product’s alone, and the other product gets Free features with its own 5,000 unique visitors a month. In a new workspace both products start off until an admin turns each on (the MCP tool get_install_status shows which are on). Free is monthly only and covers 1 active site and up to 5,000 unique visitors each calendar month; Pro covers 5 active sites and Max unlimited sites (fair use). Pro and Max come in steps from 10,000 to 450,000 unique visitors a month, for both products or one; at 50,000 for both products, Pro is $149 a month and Max is $219, and yearly billing is 20% off. Pro and Max yearly plans get 12 months of unique visitors up front. Bots Cuttl detects never count toward a plan. At the limit, Cuttl tracks no one new until the 1st of the next month (monthly plans) or the next plan year (yearly plans), or until a top-up or upgrade; unique visitors already counted this month carry on, with no overage charges. Refunds: within 14 days of the first payment (details at https://cuttl.io/terms/#refunds). Full details: https://cuttl.io/pricing/.
- Live demo: https://cuttl.io/live-demo/ opens a read-only Cuttl workspace showing cuttl.io with made-up sessions, after a short form (work email, name and company). No account needed.
- Where it runs: Cuttl runs on our servers at app.cuttl.io. It isn't open source, and you can't run it on your own servers.
- Install: the Cuttl Tag, a short piece of code in the page's `<head>`, or through Google Tag Manager. Single-page apps (React, Vue, Next.js) are tracked without extra setup. It's under 1.7 KB and loads the rest in the background; the session recorder loads only for recorded sessions.
- Privacy: visitors' IP addresses are never stored, form inputs are masked by default, consent settings are respected before recording, and the bots and AI agents Cuttl detects are kept out of reports.
- AI assistants: a built-in MCP server (https://app.cuttl.io/mcp) lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients read Cuttl data and draft tests. Changes wait for a person's approval.
- Works for: small sites with little traffic (Change Impact needs no A/B test) up to multi-site portfolios and agencies (unlimited sites on Max).
- Last updated: 2026-11-02.

## How Cuttl works

1. **Spot the problem.** Heatmaps and session recordings show where visitors get stuck. Cuttl detects rage clicks, dead clicks, errors and form drop-off, and groups them into issues ranked by severity: how serious each problem is and how many sessions it affects.
2. **Test the fix.** One click turns an issue into an A/B test idea, with the recordings and heatmap attached. Every variant gets its own heatmaps and recordings.
3. **Ship the winner.** Roll out the version that converts better, gradually with a holdout. Cuttl then checks whether the problem stopped and measures the change before and after.

## Journey Insights (heatmaps and session recordings)

- [Journey Insights](https://cuttl.io/journey-insights/): The product page for heatmaps, session replay, frustration signals, funnels, forms, feedback and site health.
- Click, scroll, hover, zone and friction heatmaps (rage, dead and error clicks), filterable by device, channel, campaign, country, segment, A/B test variant, goal or a clicked element, with before and after views.
- A heatmap can open over the live page on your own site, in a new tab, or inside Cuttl. Heatmaps show one version of a page at a time, including past versions. You can click through menus, tabs and accordions to see the clicks inside them, count every click or only each pageview's first or last, see which zones of a page come before a conversion, and list every clicked element, including ones hidden in closed menus.
- Saved heatmap views that open in one click (3 per site on Free) and, on Pro and Max, are sent daily or weekly to Slack; heatmap downloads as an image (PNG) or element list (CSV) on Pro and Max; observations with a screenshot attached.
- Session recordings with idle time skipped, a timeline marking rage clicks, errors and conversions, console errors and failed network requests beside the replay (requests a visitor’s ad blocker stopped are labelled as blocked and never counted as errors), and every session from the same visitor (on Free, the newest 3 for each visitor can be watched).
- Visitors (Max plan): every unique visitor listed under a made-up name and picture, searchable by name, visitor ID or user ID. Each visitor has a profile with every session's pages and active time, the links they clicked to other sites, the files they downloaded, their conversions and revenue, and the recording of any session.
- Likelihood to convert and interest (early access, every plan): each site’s own model scores sessions High, Medium or Low once it has 500 converted sessions in 28 days and scores at least 0.70 AUC on a held-out week; interest is the page group a visitor spent most time on. Both are filters on Journey Insights pages, in the MCP tools (Pro and Max) and the REST API (Max).
- Frustration signals: rage clicks, dead clicks, error clicks, page refreshes, quick backs, cursor thrashing, repeated scrolling and switching tabs, grouped automatically into issues with affected sessions and estimated lost conversions.
- Funnels (evaluated retroactively, for any segment) and form analytics with per-field time, hesitation, refills and drop-off. Form values are never recorded.
- Goals, conversions and revenue per visitor.
- Feedback, NPS and exit surveys, each answer linked to the recording of that session.
- Site health: Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) from real visitors, grouped JavaScript errors and failed requests, and uptime and journey monitors.
- Session length is active time everywhere (scrolling, clicking or typing plus up to a minute after each, and reading up to a tab switch; hidden tabs never count). Pages inside an iframe are tracked as their own session, and canvas charts appear in recordings and heatmaps.
- Segments, unique visitors across sessions, custom attributes and user IDs, and bot and AI-agent traffic kept apart from people.

## Web Experiments (A/B testing)

- [Web Experiments](https://cuttl.io/web-experiments/): The product page for A/B testing, the visual editor, statistics, rollouts and Change Impact.
- A/B, multi-page, split URL and multivariate tests, plus multi-armed bandit traffic allocation (Thompson sampling on the primary metric, an equal-split warm-up until each version has 100 unique visitors and the original and each version together have 50 conversions and 50 unique visitors without one, at least 5% of traffic per variant (with more than 10 versions, half the traffic is shared evenly), re-balanced at most every 10 minutes, new visitors only).
- A visual editor (text, styles, links and images at desktop, tablet and mobile widths) and custom CSS and JavaScript per variant.
- An Add panel in the visual editor: 29 page elements in 7 groups, and 9 widgets (pop-up, email signup, exit pop-up, full screen, sticky bar, countdown bar, slide-in, notification, floating button) with their own trigger, frequency, closing rules and shown/clicked/closed/submitted goals. Email signups go to the site's own form URL; Cuttl never stores the addresses.
- A metric library (clicks, form submits, goals, revenue, bounce, scroll depth, and rage, dead and error clicks), revenue per visitor, average order value and profit per visitor, and guardrails that alert or turn off a variant.
- Targeting by device, channel, country, landing page, UTM, visitor type and more; saved audiences; triggers on page load, scroll depth, time on page or exit intent; frequency caps; mutually exclusive groups.
- Audience rules for device model, OS version, data layer values, ad blockers, pages visited and events, custom attributes and value lists, IP and weather, grouped with AND/OR brackets. Triggers on pages viewed, a click, a form submit, engagement, a new session, JavaScript, a goal or a version seen in another test, with all/any logic and saved triggers.
- Reports with saved filters, segment comparison, an all-metrics table, CSV export, revocable share links, recordings and heatmaps of converted and non-converted visitors, and program results across tests.
- Review workflow: edits to a live test wait as unpublished changes (publish or discard), optional launch approvals by admins, version history with restore, and comments with mentions.
- Bayesian (default), sequential and fixed-horizon statistics; a pre-test planner that estimates the weeks a test needs; the minimum detectable effect is pre-registered before launch; false-positive risk, peeking warnings and sample ratio mismatch checks.
- A launch decision with expected lift and chance to beat control, per-variant recordings and heatmaps, a breakdown by channel, and an append-only audit history.
- Cross-domain A/B tests (Max plan): link sites in the same workspace, and a visitor who clicks through to a linked site keeps their version there, with conversions on that site counted in the test.
- Rollouts to 50–100% of visitors with a holdout and ramp history.
- Change Impact: before-and-after analysis against the rest of the site, for changes too small to A/B test.
- An emergency stop for admins: one switch stops every Cuttl script on every site in the workspace until it is turned off.
- Flicker-free: visitors see their variant without the original flashing first, and the Cuttl Tag never blocks the page.

## Definitions Cuttl uses

- **Session:** each time someone comes to the site. It ends after 30 minutes without activity.
- **Unique visitor:** one browser across sessions, optionally identified with your own user ID.
- **Rage click:** 3 or more clicks within 1 second in the same spot that the page doesn't respond to, a sign of frustration.
- **Dead click:** a click that changes nothing on the page within 1 second, usually a broken or misleading element.
- **Error click:** a click followed by a JavaScript error.
- **Quick back:** leaving a page within 8 seconds by going back.
- **Experience score (0–100):** 100 × (1 − average friction), where a session's friction combines the frustration signals it had. Grades: Great 95–100, Good 80–95, Average 50–80, Poor 30–50, Very poor below 30.
- **Issue:** a cluster of friction detected automatically (dead, rage or error clicks on an element, JavaScript errors, failed requests, quick backs, form drop-off or slow pages), with the affected sessions and estimated lost conversions.
- **Fix check:** when an issue stops happening, Cuttl shows "Looks fixed" as clean sessions add up, marks it "Fixed, verified" once that can't be chance, and reopens it as "Regressed" if it returns.
- **Change Impact verdict:** improved, worse, inconclusive or too early.

## Small sites and automation

- Works without A/B-test traffic: Change Impact detects site updates automatically (no release process needed) and compares changed pages with the rest of the site before and after.
- The pre-test planner says when an A/B test would take too long and suggests a before-and-after check instead.
- Recordings are sorted by what's worth watching, and an optional weekly digest goes to Slack or a webhook.

## Scale

5 active sites on Pro, unlimited sites on Max. Heatmaps use 100% of traffic, while recordings can be sampled (sessions with frustration, errors, feedback or a conversion are always kept). URLs are grouped by template. There are no row limits on the API or exports. Recordings are kept 7 days on Free, 45 days on Pro and 90 days on Max; reports and numbers cover the last 90 days, 1 year or 3 years.

## Use Cuttl from an AI assistant (MCP)

- [MCP server](https://cuttl.io/mcp/): How to connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Gemini CLI, and what assistants can do.
- Server address: https://app.cuttl.io/mcp. Sign-in is OAuth with a Cuttl account, so there's no API key to paste (API keys remain for scripts). This is an API endpoint, not a web page.
- Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http cuttl https://app.cuttl.io/mcp`, then `/mcp` to sign in.
- Plans: setting up a site through an assistant (`create_site`, `get_cuttl_tag`, `get_install_status`) works on every plan, including Free. `list_visitors` and `get_visitor` are on Max only. Every other tool is on Pro and Max.
- Read tools: overview, session search with replay links, the visitor list and profiles (Max only), heatmap readouts (including conversions by clicked element), frustration signals, issues, funnels, forms, feedback, goals, experience score, site health, traffic quality, Change Impact, past test learnings and a weekly digest, all with the same segment filters.
- Write tools: A/B, split URL, multi-page and multivariate tests and rollouts, built from the real page's elements and selectors, with every change checked against a recorded session on the page. Plus Journey Insights setup: goals, funnels, segments, notes, issue triage, deploy markers, page groups, alerts, surveys, internal IP exclusion, monitors, and saved heatmap views with daily or weekly sends.
- In assistants that support MCP Apps, such as Claude, a before-and-after variant preview appears in the conversation; elsewhere the assistant gives preview links.
- Governance: changes wait for approval in Cuttl, following dashboard roles. Launches, live-test edits, custom code, deletes and visitor-facing changes always need a person. Permissions are set per connection, and every call is logged in the AI action log. Assistants can never change privacy, consent, retention, integrations or webhooks, create share links, delete visitor data, or manage the team or keys.

## For AI coding agents installing Cuttl

1. Copy the site's Cuttl Tag from the Cuttl workspace (app.cuttl.io, the site's Install tab) and add it to the `<head>` of every page, or deploy it through Google Tag Manager. Connected through the MCP server, an agent can add the site itself with `create_site` and get its Cuttl Tag with `get_cuttl_tag`, on every plan. `create_site` needs the connection's "Change site setup" permission (without it, the person gets a link that opens Add a site filled in), adds a second site on Free as paused, and never starts a payment. Don't write the Cuttl Tag from memory.
2. Ask the person to turn on Journey Insights or Web Experiments. A new workspace starts with both off and keeps nothing until one is on. An admin turns them on from the product's page or Settings → Plan & usage; an agent can't.
3. Single-page apps need no extra routing code; route changes are tracked as page views.
4. To exclude internal traffic, add your office IP addresses in Cuttl's settings (or through the MCP server).
5. Don't invent Cuttl SDKs, CLI commands, API endpoints or MCP tools. The MCP server lists its own tools after sign-in; use https://cuttl.io/mcp/ and the app as the source of truth.

- [Cuttl for AI agents](https://cuttl.io/agents.md): step-by-step setup for coding agents: add the Cuttl Tag, check that data arrives and connect the MCP server.
- Every page on cuttl.io has a Markdown version: add `.md` to the path, for example https://cuttl.io/pricing.md.

### Install guides

- [Install guides](https://cuttl.io/install/): where the Cuttl Tag goes on each platform, how to check it works, and common questions.
- [Install on Shopify](https://cuttl.io/install/shopify/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to your Shopify store. Paste the Cuttl Tag into theme.liquid, save, and check it works. Takes about five minutes.
- [Install on WordPress](https://cuttl.io/install/wordpress/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a WordPress site. Paste the Cuttl Tag with a header code plugin or in your theme, then check it works.
- [Install on Webflow](https://cuttl.io/install/webflow/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Webflow site. Paste the Cuttl Tag into Head code in Site settings, publish, and check it works.
- [Install on Wix](https://cuttl.io/install/wix/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Wix site. Add the Cuttl Tag as custom code on all pages, publish, and check it works.
- [Install on Squarespace](https://cuttl.io/install/squarespace/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Squarespace site. Paste the Cuttl Tag into Code Injection’s Header field and check it works.
- [Install on Framer](https://cuttl.io/install/framer/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Framer site. Paste the Cuttl Tag into the site’s custom code, publish, and check it works.
- [Install on WooCommerce](https://cuttl.io/install/woocommerce/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a WooCommerce store. Paste the Cuttl Tag with a header code plugin, then count orders on the order received page.
- [Install on BigCommerce](https://cuttl.io/install/bigcommerce/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a BigCommerce store. Add the Cuttl Tag in Script Manager, in the head of all pages, then check it works.
- [Install on HubSpot](https://cuttl.io/install/hubspot/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to HubSpot website pages, landing pages and blog. Paste the Cuttl Tag into your site header HTML.
- [Install on Ghost](https://cuttl.io/install/ghost/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Ghost site. Paste the Cuttl Tag into Code injection, in the site header, then check it works.
- [Install on Next.js](https://cuttl.io/install/nextjs/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Next.js app. Put the Cuttl Tag in the root layout’s head, for the App Router or Pages Router.
- [Install on React, Vue, Svelte and Astro](https://cuttl.io/install/react/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a React, Vue, Svelte or Astro site. Paste the Cuttl Tag into index.html or your base layout.
- [Install on Nuxt](https://cuttl.io/install/nuxt/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Nuxt app. Put the Cuttl Tag in app.head in nuxt.config, so it’s in every page’s head.
- [Install on Gatsby](https://cuttl.io/install/gatsby/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Gatsby site. Add the Cuttl Tag to every page’s head with onRenderBody in gatsby-ssr.js.
- [Install on Laravel](https://cuttl.io/install/laravel/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Laravel app. Paste the Cuttl Tag into the head of your main Blade layout.
- [Install on Django](https://cuttl.io/install/django/): Add heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests to a Django site. Paste the Cuttl Tag into the head of your base template.
- [Install on Google Tag Manager](https://cuttl.io/install/google-tag-manager/): Add Cuttl’s heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests through Google Tag Manager, with a Custom HTML tag on all pages.

## Integrations

A REST API, webhooks, Slack, CSV and NDJSON exports, CDN geo headers (Cloudflare, Vercel, CloudFront), OpenID Connect single sign-on and the MCP server. Cuttl works on any website where you can add a script to the page: online stores, SaaS apps, booking and lead-generation sites, publishers, blogs and course sites.

## Privacy and security

Visitors' IP addresses are never stored: Cuttl uses them only to look up the visitor's country, apply your IP exclusions, target A/B tests and limit abuse, then drops them. Form inputs are masked by default and form values are never recorded. Consent settings are respected before anything is recorded, and the bots and AI agents Cuttl detects are filtered out of reports. Access is controlled with team roles and OpenID Connect single sign-on. Recordings are kept 7, 45 or 90 days and reports cover 90 days, 1 year or 3 years, depending on the plan.

## Plans and pricing

- [Pricing](https://cuttl.io/pricing/): Free, Pro and Max plans priced by monthly unique visitors, a full feature comparison, top-ups and what happens at the limit.

## Who uses Cuttl

- CRO and experimentation teams: find issues with evidence, run tests with pre-registered metrics and guardrails, and see why the winner won.
- Growth and performance marketers: compare landing pages by channel and campaign, and test messages and offers.
- Ecommerce managers: find the checkout step that loses shoppers and test delivery, pricing and product-page changes measured in revenue per visitor.
- Product managers: watch how people use a new feature and confirm whether a release helped with Change Impact.
- UX and UI designers: see where layouts confuse people (dead clicks, rage clicks, scroll depth) before and after a redesign.
- Developers: see console errors and failed requests beside the replay, and test with custom CSS and JavaScript.
- Agencies: run every client site from one workspace, with client logins on Max, and share recordings and before-and-after results.
- Founders and small businesses: get answers without big traffic, from heatmaps and recordings on day one and Change Impact for changes.

## Industries

- [Use cases](https://cuttl.io/use-cases/): Common problems (traffic steady but conversions flat, broken elements nobody reported, forms people abandon, slow pages) and how Cuttl handles each, on online stores, SaaS, service businesses, publishers, agencies and course sites.
- [Industries](https://cuttl.io/industries/): For online stores, SaaS, lead-gen sites, publishers, agencies and course sites: where each one loses visitors, the number to watch, and how Cuttl tests the fix.
- [Ecommerce](https://cuttl.io/industries/ecommerce/): Heatmaps, session recordings and A/B testing for online stores, from checkout funnels to tests measured in revenue per visitor.
- [SaaS](https://cuttl.io/industries/saas/): Heatmaps, session recordings and A/B testing for SaaS sites, from sign-up funnels to pricing-page tests measured in sign-ups.
- [Agencies](https://cuttl.io/industries/agencies/): Heatmaps, session recordings and A/B testing for agencies: every client site in one workspace, share links, client logins and launch approvals.
- [Shopify](https://cuttl.io/industries/shopify/): Heatmaps, session recordings and A/B testing for Shopify stores, added in the theme with no app, covering product, collection and cart pages up to checkout.

## Comparisons

- [Cuttl vs Contentsquare (Hotjar)](https://cuttl.io/compare/contentsquare/): How Cuttl compares with Contentsquare, which now includes Hotjar, on heatmaps, session replay and A/B testing.
- [Cuttl vs Microsoft Clarity](https://cuttl.io/compare/microsoft-clarity/): How Cuttl compares with Microsoft Clarity, and what Cuttl adds: A/B testing, fix checks and Change Impact.
- [Cuttl vs Mouseflow](https://cuttl.io/compare/mouseflow/): How Cuttl compares with Mouseflow on heatmaps, session recordings, form analytics and pricing, and what Cuttl adds: A/B tests on every plan.
- [Cuttl vs Lucky Orange](https://cuttl.io/compare/lucky-orange/): How Cuttl compares with Lucky Orange on heatmaps, session recordings, funnels and pricing. Lucky Orange doesn’t list A/B testing and has no free plan; Cuttl runs A/B tests from the same Cuttl Tag as its heatmaps and recordings, and has a free plan.
- [Cuttl vs Crazy Egg](https://cuttl.io/compare/crazy-egg/): How Cuttl compares with Crazy Egg on heatmaps, session recordings, A/B tests and pricing. Crazy Egg’s A/B testing starts on its $99 a month plan and its recordings are a set number each month; Cuttl runs A/B tests on every plan, including Free, and records every session up to its unique visitor limit.

## Free tools
- [A/B test significance calculator](https://cuttl.io/tools/ab-test-significance-calculator/): p-value, lift range, chance to beat control and a sample ratio mismatch check
- [A/B test sample size calculator](https://cuttl.io/tools/ab-test-sample-size-calculator/): visitors per version and weeks to run, from baseline rate and minimum detectable effect

## Guides and blog

- [Blog](https://cuttl.io/blog/): guides to heatmaps, session recordings, A/B testing and conversion work
  - [What is a website heatmap?](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-a-heatmap/): A heatmap shows where visitors click, move and scroll on a page. Here is how to read one, the main types, and how to use them to fix pages that don’t convert.
  - [What is a session recording?](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-a-session-recording/): A session recording replays one real session on your website, so you can see exactly where someone got stuck. Here is how it works, what to look for and how privacy is handled.
  - [What is A/B testing?](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-ab-testing/): A/B testing shows two versions of a page to different visitors and measures which one works better. Here is how a test works, how long to run one and how to read the result.
  - [What is a conversion funnel?](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-a-conversion-funnel/): A conversion funnel lists the steps people take to buy, sign up or book, and shows how many make it through each one. Here is how to build one and use it to find your biggest leak.
  - [Rage clicks and dead clicks, explained](https://cuttl.io/blog/rage-clicks-and-dead-clicks/): Rage clicks and dead clicks are signs that something on your site is broken or confusing. Here is what they mean, why they happen and how to fix the ones that matter.
  - [How to measure a change without an A/B test](https://cuttl.io/blog/before-and-after-analysis/): Most website changes never get an A/B test. Here is how to tell whether a change helped by comparing before and after properly, so a busy week or a slow month doesn’t fool you.
  - [What happened to Hotjar?](https://cuttl.io/blog/hotjar-is-now-contentsquare/): Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare, and you can no longer sign up for Hotjar on its own. What changed, what stayed the same, and what to check before you renew or switch.
  - [What is a click map?](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-a-click-map/): A click map shows where visitors click or tap on a page. Here is how one is built, what to look for, and how to read it without drawing the wrong conclusion.
  - [What is a scroll map?](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-a-scroll-map/): A scroll map shows how far down a page visitors get before they leave. Here is how one is built, what the colours mean, and how to act on what it shows.
  - [What is statistical significance in A/B testing?](https://cuttl.io/blog/statistical-significance-ab-testing/): Statistical significance tells you whether an A/B test result is likely to be real or just chance. Here is how it works, what 95% means and where it misleads.
  - [MCP analytics: ask Claude or ChatGPT about your website visitors](https://cuttl.io/blog/mcp-analytics/): Cuttl’s MCP server lets AI assistants read heatmaps, recordings and test results, and draft A/B tests that wait for your approval. Here is what it does.
  - [What is multi-armed bandit testing?](https://cuttl.io/blog/multi-armed-bandit-testing/): A multi-armed bandit splits traffic within a test, sending more visitors to the version that’s ahead. How it works, and when an even split fits better.
  - [A/B test targeting, results by segment and approvals before launch](https://cuttl.io/blog/ab-test-targeting-and-approvals/): Show a test to the right visitors, read its results by segment and review changes before they go live. New in Cuttl Web Experiments since 14 October 2026.
  - [What is sequential testing?](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-sequential-testing/): Sequential testing lets you check an A/B test while it runs and stop early without inflating false positives. Here is how it works and what it costs.
  - [Heatmaps for dropdown menus, tabs and accordions](https://cuttl.io/blog/heatmaps-for-dynamic-content/): See clicks inside menus, tabs and accordions as visitors saw them, and read each version of a page on its own. New in Cuttl heatmaps since 14 October 2026.
  - [Heatmap examples: six patterns and what to do about each](https://cuttl.io/blog/heatmap-examples/): Six patterns that show up on website heatmaps, from dead clicks to a scroll cliff, with what each one usually means and the first fix to test.
  - [Sample ratio mismatch: how to spot it and what to do](https://cuttl.io/blog/sample-ratio-mismatch/): Sample ratio mismatch means an A/B test’s visitors aren’t split the way you set it up. How to check for it, what usually causes it, and what to do next.
  - [Exit-intent pop-ups, sticky bars and widgets you can A/B test](https://cuttl.io/blog/ab-test-popups-and-widgets/): Add pop-ups, exit-intent offers, sticky bars and email signups to an A/B test in Cuttl’s visual editor, and measure them against the page without them.
  - [Multivariate testing: how it works and when to use it](https://cuttl.io/blog/multivariate-testing/): Multivariate testing tries every combination of changes to several parts of a page at once. How it works, how much traffic it needs, and how to read it.
  - [Split URL testing: what it is and how to run one](https://cuttl.io/blog/split-url-testing/): Split URL testing sends part of your traffic to a different page to see which one converts better. When to use it over an A/B test, and how to set one up.
  - [Minimum detectable effect: what it is and how to set it](https://cuttl.io/blog/minimum-detectable-effect/): The minimum detectable effect is the smallest change an A/B test is built to catch. How it sets sample size and test length, and how to pick one.
  - [Cross-domain A/B testing: count the sale on the other site](https://cuttl.io/blog/cross-domain-ab-testing/): Run an A/B test on one domain and count the purchase or sign-up that happens on another. How cross-domain tests work in Cuttl, and who they help.
  - [How long to run an A/B test, and how to work it out](https://cuttl.io/blog/how-long-to-run-an-ab-test/): How long to run an A/B test: sample size, daily traffic and whole weeks decide it. A worked example, stopping rules and what to do when it’s too long.
  - [New in heatmaps: live pages, first clicks, saved views and exports](https://cuttl.io/blog/new-in-heatmaps-october-2026/): Open a heatmap on your live site, count first or last clicks, see which zones come before a conversion, and save, send or download any heatmap view.
  - [What is a dead click? How to find and fix them](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-a-dead-click/): A dead click is a click that gets no response from the page. What counts as a response, the usual causes, and how to find, rank and fix dead clicks.
  - [Likelihood to convert: find the sessions that nearly converted](https://cuttl.io/blog/likelihood-to-convert/): Cuttl now scores every session High, Medium or Low for likelihood to convert, from your own site’s data. Filter to likely buyers who left and see why.
  - [A/B testing with low traffic: how to get answers you can trust](https://cuttl.io/blog/ab-testing-low-traffic/): A/B testing with low traffic works if you test bigger changes on busier pages and goals. The sample-size maths, what to avoid, and when to skip the test.
  - [What’s new in Cuttl: active session time, AI setup and 16 other updates](https://cuttl.io/blog/whats-new-in-cuttl-2026-10-30/): Session length now counts active time, AI assistants can set up a site, and A/B results, heatmaps and the visual editor get 16 more updates.
  - [What is an MCP server? How AI assistants connect to your tools](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-an-mcp-server/): An MCP server lets an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT read data from another tool and act in it. How it works, local and remote servers, and safety.
  - [Core Web Vitals and conversions: how page speed affects your conversion rate](https://cuttl.io/blog/core-web-vitals-and-conversions/): What LCP, INP and CLS measure, how slow pages cost conversions, and how to measure the link on your own site before and after a speed fix.
  - [What is bounce rate? How it’s measured and what to do about it](https://cuttl.io/blog/what-is-bounce-rate/): Bounce rate is the share of sessions that leave without engaging. See how it’s calculated, why GA4 changed it and how to find the cause on a page.
  - [What is the flicker effect in A/B testing, and how do you stop it?](https://cuttl.io/blog/flicker-effect-ab-testing/): The flicker effect is when visitors see the original page flash before a test variant appears. Learn what causes it, how it skews results and how to fix it.
  - [What is a holdout group, and why keep one after you ship a test?](https://cuttl.io/blog/holdout-group/): A holdout group is a share of visitors kept on the original after a change ships. Learn how it measures the real effect, how big to make it and when to end it.
  - [What is form analytics? Find the field where visitors give up](https://cuttl.io/blog/form-analytics/): Form analytics shows which field visitors hesitate on, refill or leave at. Learn the metrics, how to read them and how to fix the field that costs you sign-ups.
- [Hotjar alternatives](https://cuttl.io/alternatives/hotjar/): An alternatives roundup in the blog: seven tools compared on heatmaps, session recordings, zone heatmaps, frustration signals, form analytics, A/B testing, checking whether a change worked, and free plans, and what each is good for.

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- [Home](https://cuttl.io/): The overview, with the Spot → Test → Ship walkthrough and FAQs.
- [FAQs](https://cuttl.io/#faq): Common questions about Cuttl, privacy, small sites and AI assistants.
- [Integrations](https://cuttl.io/pricing/#features): API, webhooks, Slack and exports.
- [Full site text](https://cuttl.io/llms-full.txt): The full readable text of every page on cuttl.io, in one file, for AI tools that read whole sites.
- [Sitemap](https://cuttl.io/sitemap/): Every page on cuttl.io.
- [Privacy policy](https://cuttl.io/privacy/): How cuttl.io measures sessions, what the live demo sign-up keeps and which cookies the site uses.
- [Terms of service](https://cuttl.io/terms/): The terms for using Cuttl: plans, cancelling, refunds, your data and acceptable use.
- [XML sitemap](https://cuttl.io/sitemap.xml)
- Contact: contact@cuttl.io