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Sovereignty: not determined

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Monetate, Inc. · monetate.com

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Method and versions

The Growth Lead v1.0 · The E-Commerce Manager v1.0 · The Product Engineer v1.0 · The CRO Consultant v1.0 · The Data Protection Officer v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.0 · rubric v1 · evaluated 4 Oct 2026

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The E-Commerce Manager

Weighted verdict

Owns a shop where a tenth of a second of load time shows up in the conversion rate. Wants personalisation that can be tested against a control, a snippet that does not flicker the product page, and a traffic-based price that does not jump a tier every December.

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Experiment types & delivery

How this is scored

What can be tested and where: client-side changes through an editor, server-side and feature experiments through SDKs, multivariate and multi-page tests, and personalisation — judged on what the documentation shows rather than on the feature grid.

0 — Simple A/B split of one page element through a visual editor; no server-side option, no targeting beyond URL.

3 — Client-side A/B and split-URL tests with basic audience targeting, and no SDK or server-side delivery.

5 — Client-side and server-side experiments through documented SDKs for common languages, multivariate and multi-page tests, audience targeting on behaviour and attributes, and rule-based personalisation.

8 — Feature-flag-based experiments sharing one audience and metric model with web tests, mutually exclusive experiment groups, holdouts, edge or CDN delivery, and personalisation that can itself be tested against a control.

10 — One experimentation programme across every surface: web, app, server and edge from the same platform, experiment interactions managed, a documented experiment lifecycle from hypothesis to archived result, and a library of past results a team can search.

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The E-Commerce Manager

Client-side tags, server-side delivery through the Engine API, multivariate tests and an automated personalisation suite are all documented, which covers running tests across my catalogue pages. We found no public information on feature flags, holdouts, mutually exclusive experiment groups, or whether personalisation itself can be tested against a control group — the exact check I want before trusting a personalised experience. Broad on surfaces, unproven on programme-level controls. 1 5 9 11 12

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Statistical method & guardrails

How this is scored

Which statistics decide the winner and what protects the customer from misreading them. Scored on what the vendor documents: the method by name, how peeking and multiple comparisons are handled, and whether sample ratio mismatch is detected.

0 — A "winner" or "probability to beat" figure with no documented method, no stated sample-size guidance and no warning against stopping early.

3 — The method is named (frequentist or Bayesian) but its assumptions are not documented, and nothing prevents a test from being called while it is still underpowered.

5 — Documented method with confidence or credible intervals, a sample-size or test-duration calculator, and stated guidance on when a result may be read.

8 — Sequential testing or an equivalent documented protection against peeking, correction for multiple metrics or variants, sample ratio mismatch detection, variance reduction such as CUPED, and guardrail metrics that can stop a harmful test.

10 — The statistics are auditable: methodology published in enough detail to reproduce a result, the choice of method explained per use case, raw per-visitor data available for independent re-analysis, and the interface refuses to present an underpowered result as a conclusion.

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The E-Commerce Manager

Confidence is reported at 90, 95 and 99 per cent with a plain-language definition and a note that novelty effects can erode it over time, but the method behind the figure is never named, and we found no public information on a sample-size calculator, peeking protection or sample ratio mismatch detection. On my conversion numbers, that is a winner figure with the guardrails missing, so the discipline falls to me. 6 7

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Consent & visitor tracking

How this is scored

Whether the test script respects §25 TDDDG and the ePrivacy rules as evidenced on the vendor's own pages: when the script runs relative to consent, what it stores on the device, whether a cookieless or consent-free mode exists, and how visitor identifiers are handled.

0 — Nothing on the vendor's pages says what the script stores on the device or whether it runs before consent; consent is described as the customer's problem.

3 — Cookies or local storage are listed, and a consent integration is mentioned, but the documentation does not say what the script does before consent is given.

5 — Documented behaviour before and after consent, integration with common consent management platforms, a published list of cookies and storage keys with their lifetime, and IP anonymisation described.

8 — A documented consent-pending mode that holds tracking until consent while variants can still be served, a cookieless or first-party-only option, retention of visitor data stated, and guidance on the legal basis for testing in the EU.

10 — Built for §25 TDDDG: the default configuration stores nothing on the device without consent, a server-side or cookieless mode documented end to end, per-visitor data deletable on request, and the vendor states in writing how each mode maps to consent requirements.

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The E-Commerce Manager

The privacy policy lists session and persistent cookies, names legitimate interest as the legal basis, and processes deletion requests within 25 days — but it governs the vendor's own website, and we found no public information on what the testing script stores on a visitor's device or does before consent is given on my shop. Do Not Track signals are not honoured, and we found no public information on a consent-pending or cookieless mode. 3 12

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Snippet performance & flicker

How this is scored

The cost the client-side snippet imposes on the page it tests: blocking load, flicker of original content, script weight and the effect on Core Web Vitals — scored on what the vendor measures and publishes, not on "lightning fast".

0 — A synchronous snippet with no stated size, no flicker handling and no mention of performance.

3 — An anti-flicker snippet that hides the page until the test loads, with a timeout, and no published figures for script size or load cost.

5 — Script size and loading behaviour documented, asynchronous loading option, flicker handling explained with its trade-off, and CDN delivery of the snippet.

8 — Published performance figures including impact on Core Web Vitals, a self-hosting or first-party-domain option for the script, per-project bundles containing only active experiments, and a server-side or edge alternative for flicker-sensitive tests.

10 — Performance is a stated commitment: measured overhead published and maintained, flicker eliminated by edge or server-side rendering as a documented path, and tooling that shows the customer what their own configuration costs the page.

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The E-Commerce Manager

Flicker handling is documented with unusual honesty: content masks applied through CSS visibility so the layout does not shift, the trade-off that only the synchronous tag supports masking, and a server-side integration documented as able to completely eliminate flicker for sensitive pages. What is missing for my checkout is numbers — we found no public information on script weight, Core Web Vitals impact or a self-hosting option. 1 9 10

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Analytics, data export & integrations

How this is scored

Getting results and raw data out: integration with analytics and tag management, export of visitor-level results, warehouse-native analysis, and an API — because an experiment result that cannot be checked in the customer's own data is a claim, not a finding.

0 — Results visible in the vendor's dashboard only; no export, no analytics integration, no API.

3 — CSV export of aggregated results and one analytics integration, with no visitor-level data and no documented API.

5 — Integrations with common analytics and tag managers, export of results, and a documented API for managing experiments and reading results.

8 — Visitor-level raw data export or streaming to a data warehouse, warehouse-native analysis on the customer's own metrics, CDP integration for audiences, and an API with stated limits.

10 — The platform treats the customer's warehouse as the source of truth: metrics defined once and computed there, full historical experiment data exportable in open formats, and a versioned API a team can build its own programme tooling on.

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The E-Commerce Manager

Ready-made pushes of experience data into Google Analytics, Contentsquare and the Adobe and IBM platforms let me check a result against my own numbers, and a documented Data API with token authentication manages schemas and product catalog uploads. We found no public information on visitor-level raw data export, warehouse streaming or API rate limits, so the per-visitor evidence trail stops at the vendor's dashboard. 11 12

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where visitor data is processed and stored and who the contracting entity is. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; weighted higher here than in categories that hold only the customer's own data, because the script runs on every visitor to the customer's site and their behaviour is what the platform records.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and visitor data leaving the EU without a stated safeguard.

3 — EU data residency offered as an option or an enterprise add-on while the contracting entity is non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU processing of visitor data as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — CDN, support access, analytics — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure including the delivery of the snippet, EU contracting entity, subprocessor list published, and a DPA covering the visitor data the script collects.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting, snippet delivery and every subprocessor European, certification published, and no visitor data reaching a non-EU party at any point.

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The E-Commerce Manager

Monetate, Inc. is the contracting entity in the USA, and we found no public information on where visitor data is hosted, which subprocessors touch it, or what safeguard covers it leaving the EU. With the tag recording behaviour on every visitor to my shop, that is the biggest question mark on the whole purchase. 3 4

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

A category priced by traffic — monthly tracked users, visitors or impressions — where the tier a site lands in depends on numbers the buyer has to estimate. Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost including traffic limits, overage, server-side or personalisation modules and seats — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A starting price or a free tier exists, but the traffic metric, the limits and what happens above them are unstated — the invoice is unknowable.

5 — Tier prices public with the traffic metric and its limits defined, but at least one commonly needed piece (server-side SDKs, personalisation, overage) is unpriced or "contact sales".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with the traffic metric defined, limits, overage rates, module prices, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given traffic volume, set of modules and team size, with overage and every add-on published.

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The E-Commerce Manager

We found no public information on tier prices, the traffic metric, limits or overage terms — nothing quotable from the captured pricing page. For a shop whose traffic jumps every December, I cannot begin to compute what an annual invoice would be. 1 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Where this could be wrong

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 22 Sep 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
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What we left out

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Sources (12)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

1 Vendor homepage monetate.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
2 Pricing page monetate.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
3 Privacy policy monetate.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
4 Terms of service monetate.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
5 Experiment types & delivery — found from sitemap docs.monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
6 Statistical method & guardrails — found from sitemap docs.monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
7 Statistical method & guardrails — found from sitemap monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
8 Consent & visitor tracking — found from sitemap docs.monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
9 Snippet performance & flicker — found from sitemap docs.monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
10 Snippet performance & flicker — found from sitemap docs.monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
11 Analytics, data export & integrations — found from sitemap docs.monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
12 Analytics, data export & integrations — found from sitemap developer.monetate.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →