# Experiment has run for 5 days and still says "in progress", is it broken?

Asked by luiza on 2024-10-02. Tags: ab-testing, statistics.

hi, I got handed our A/B testing project and I am worried I set something up
wrong. The experiment has been running for 5 days now and the dashboard still
shows "in progress" with no winner. Traffic looks fine to me: about 800
visitors per variant and 19 conversions on the better one, 14 on the other.

Is there some flag I forgot to enable, or does the experiment need to be
manually closed? I keep refreshing hoping it changes but nothing does

## 1 answer

### Accepted answer from Owen Tran (2024-10-02)

Nothing is broken, you just have not cleared the thresholds yet. An
experiment stays "in progress" until three conditions are met for EACH
variant:

1. At least 1000 visitors
2. At least 25 conversions
3. At least 1 full week elapsed

With ~800 visitors and 19 conversions per variant you are short on the
first two, and at day 5 you have not hit the week mark either.

The one-week minimum is not about sample size at all. It exists so the
experiment covers a full weekday/weekend cycle, because user behavior on a
Saturday is often very different from a Tuesday and you do not want a
winner called on a biased slice of the week.

Give it a few more days and the status will resolve on its own once all
three flags clear. No manual closing needed.

#### Reply from luiza (2024-10-03)

That is a huge relief, thank you. Did not realize the week requirement
was deliberate. Will stop refreshing every hour now.