Congrats Dan & team - that is awesome news!
Looks like your bump happened in May 2012 and drove that 2x growth in adoption.
Probably not coincidentally connected to your funding round that same month - what's the story of the growth?
Looks like your bump happened in May 2012 and drove that 2x growth in adoption.
Probably not coincidentally connected to your funding round that same month - what's the story of the growth?
If you look back you can see we've been growing at a pretty steady clip every since we launched: http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Optimizely
However you are right that there does seem to be an inflection point in May 2012. I can only speculate why this happened. Here are a few possible reasons:
1. We got really lucky with a bunch of great press at the end of April including a phenomenal piece in Wired: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_abtesting/ and a piece on CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEpsfQHNUxU
2. We announced our funding: http://blog.optimizely.com/2012/05/30/optimizely-surpasses-g...
3. Probably in some part because of #1 we started ranking very high for organic search terms. For example we are now the first ranked result for "website a/b testing" on Google.
Hope that answers your question!