Use a Custom URL to Run a Site-Wide Test in Wingify

Overview

Custom URL in Wingify allows you to test multiple pages of your website even if the website pages do not have a consistent pattern. Typically, running a Wingify test across multiple pages on your website involves the following two scenarios:

1. Website pages that have a consistent pattern: To run a test across multiple pages, specify a URL pattern while creating a test. URL patterns allow you to specify a wildcard (*) pattern such that you can run a test on more than one page of your website. For example, if you wish to match all the pages of your website www.example.com, specify the URL pattern as www.example.com*. To learn about the different URL patterns supported by Wingify, refer to URL Patterns in Wingify.
2. Website pages that do not have a pattern: If the pages you want to test do not have a consistent pattern, either a regular expression and if even that is not available, you can use a Custom URL feature to run your test across the website pages. For example, consider that you have the URLs, http://example.com/adidas/, http://example.com/reebok/, http://example.com/microsoft/, and http://example.com/adobe/. You want to run the test on pages that list shoe brands (Adidas and Reebok in the example). The URLs of the webpages do not have a proper pattern; therefore, we use the Custom URL feature to specify the pages you want to test.

Set Up a Custom URL For Your Test

Procedure

1. Create an imaginary custom URL for the pages you want to test. The custom URL is only an identifier in the test and does not need to exist in real life. For example, the imaginary custom URL could be http://example.com/my_shoes_pages.
2. Enter the custom URL you created while setting up the test in Wingify. Refer to the following screenshot as an example:
3. Add the custom URL to the _vis_opt_url JavaScript variable of your Wingify SmartCode. Add the variable to all the pages which you want to include in the test.

var _vis_opt_url = 'http://example.com/my_shoes_pages' + location.search + location.hash;

Modify the Wingify Asynchronous SmartCode to Implement Custom URL

For tests using Wingify asynchronous SmartCode, modify the code snippet to add the custom URL to the _vis_opt_url variable as follows:

• Accounts created before June 14, 2026
• Accounts created on/after June 14, 2026

<script type = 'text/javascript' >
    var _vis_opt_url = 'http://example.com/my_shoes_pages' + location.search + location.hash;
window._vwo_code = window._vwo_code || (function() {
    var account_id = ACCOUNT_ID, // your VWO Account ID
        settings_tolerance = 2000,
        library_tolerance = 2500,
        use_existing_jquery = false,
        is_spa = 1,
        hide_element = 'body',

        /* DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE */
        f = false,
        d = document,
        code = {
            use_existing_jquery: function() {
                return use_existing_jquery;
            },
            library_tolerance: function() {
                return library_tolerance;
            },
            finish: function() {
                if (!f) {
                    f = true;
                    var a = d.getElementById('_vis_opt_path_hides');
                    if (a) a.parentNode.removeChild(a);
                }
            },
            finished: function() {
                return f;
            },
            load: function(a) {
                var b = d.createElement('script');
                b.src = a;
                b.type = 'text/javascript';
                b.innerText;
                b.onerror = function() {
                    _vwo_code.finish();
                };
                d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(b);
            },
            init: function() {
                window.settings_timer = setTimeout(function() {
                    _vwo_code.finish()
                }, settings_tolerance);
                var a = d.createElement('style'),
                    b = hide_element ? hide_element + '{opacity:0 !important;filter:alpha(opacity=0) !important;background:none !important;}' : '',
                    h = d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
                a.setAttribute('id', '_vis_opt_path_hides');
                a.setAttribute('type', 'text/css');
                if (a.styleSheet) a.styleSheet.cssText = b;
                else a.appendChild(d.createTextNode(b));
                h.appendChild(a);
                this.load('https://dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/j.php?a=' + account_id + '&u=' + encodeURIComponent(_vis_opt_url) + '&f=' + (+is_spa) + '&r=' + Math.random());
                return settings_timer;
            }
        };
    window._vwo_settings_timer = code.init();
    return code;
}());
</script>

<script type = 'text/javascript' >
   window._vis_opt_url = 'http://example.com/my_shoes_pages' + location.search + location.hash;
</script>
<!-- Start Wingify SmartCode -->
<script src="https://edge.wingify.net/tag/1240080.js"></script>
<!-- End Wingify SmartCode -->

To check if you have correctly installed the SmartCode on your webpage, enter the URL in the SmartCode Checker in the Settings > SmartCode section of your Wingify Account. See SmartCode Checker to know what different results mean.

Modify the Wingify Synchronous SmartCode to Implement Custom URL

To implement the custom URL, there are two implementations in which you can modify the Wingify Synchronous SmartCode: 

If you’re using the One SmartCode (synchronous SmartCode), use the following code and modify this code snippet to add the required custom URL to the _vis_opt_url variable given here:

<script type = "text/javascript" >
  var _vis_opt_url = 'http://example.com/my_shoes_pages' + location.search + location.hash; 
</script>

• Accounts created before June 14, 2026
• Accounts created on/after June 14, 2026

<!-- Start VWO SmartCode -->
<script
    <!--VWO One SmartCode(Replace < ACCOUNTID > with your VWO account id) -->
src = "https://dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/lib/<ACCOUNTID>.js" > < /script>
<!--End VWO SmartCode-- >

<!--Wingify SmartCode (Replace < ACCOUNTID > with your Wingify account id) -->
<!-- Start Wingify SmartCode -->
<script src="https://edge.wingify.net/tag/<ACCOUNTID>.js"></script>
<!-- End Wingify SmartCode -->

If you’re still using the deprecated synchronous SmartCode implementation, use the following to modify the code snippet to add the custom URL to the _vis_opt_url variable:

• Accounts created before June 14, 2026
• Accounts created on/after June 14, 2026

<script type = "text/javascript" >
    // Only on pages where this test is to be run
    var _vis_opt_url = 'http://example.com/my_shoes_pages' + location.search + location.hash;
// Common VWO Code
var _vis_opt_url = typeof(_vis_opt_url) == "undefined" ? document.URL : _vis_opt_url;
'&url=' + encodeURIComponent(_vis_opt_url) + '&random=' + Math.random()
  </script>

<script type = "text/javascript" >
   // Only on pages where this test is to be run
   window._vis_opt_url = 'http://example.com/my_shoes_pages' + location.search + location.hash;
// Common Wingify Code
window._vis_opt_url = typeof(window._vis_opt_url) == "undefined" ? document.URL : _vis_opt_url;
'&url=' + encodeURIComponent(window._vis_opt_url) + '&random=' + Math.random()
 </script>

Need more help? 

For further assistance or more information, contact Wingify Support.