Learn from the Croct community
Questions and answers from the Croct community, covering personalization, A/B testing, CMS integrations, and SDK usage.
Can I stream the page shell first and let the personalized slot fill in?
Next.js App Router. I want static-feeling TTFB. The page has one personalized slot below the fold and I would rather resolve it on the server than swap it in…
Coming off Optimizely on our headless storefront, does Croct avoid the render-blocking snippet?
our Hydrogen storefront has been running Optimizely and the snippet is a real cost. It loads synchronously on the critical path, and even with no experiment…
Can I build one value out of two strings in CQL with the & operator?
factoring a long audience condition and the same prefix shows up in a few clauses. I would rather keep it in one place than retype it everywhere. I saw &…
Croct shows a "probability to be best" and no p-value, how do I read that?
All my previous tooling reported A/B results as a p-value plus a 95% confidence interval on the lift, and that is the language my team reasons in. Croct's…
Is there an official Croct SDK for PHP, or do we hit the HTTP API by hand?
our stack is mostly PHP and we want to add personalization to a few pages without bolting a client-side snippet onto the frontend. server-rendered is the…
Can our marketing team run Storyblok experiments without a dev ticket each time?
Our site runs on Storyblok and right now every content variation we want to test means filing a ticket and waiting on the dev queue, which usually pushes a…
Once our devs mapped the components, can I create variants in Sanity myself?
ok so I am on the marketing side, not a developer, and I want to check I understand what I can do on my own. Our dev team mapped the hero and the promo block…
Does server-side fetchContent add a TTFB penalty on my Next app?
i moved our hero personalization out of a client hook and into a server fetchContent call in the App Router. my assumption was that the extra server-side…
Wiring the Croct request context into my Hydrogen loaders, is this a lot of plumbing?
standing up a fresh Hydrogen storefront on React Router 7 and adding Croct to it. my assumption going in was that I would have to construct a Croct instance…
Can I prove out one experiment on the free plan before pitching this to my team?
i am a PM and i want to run one real experiment as a proof of concept before i ask anyone to pay for anything. the plan is simple: pick our highest-traffic…
What happens to my Hydrogen page if a Croct fetch fails or times out?
Before I ship personalization to production I want to be certain about one failure mode. If a content request is slow or fails outright, I need the storefront…
Does resolving personalization server-side add a TTFB penalty?
evaluating croct and the one thing holding me back is TTFB. right now most of our pages are basically static, we sit around 180ms TTFB from origin and i do…