A system and method for efficiently executing a plurality of live parallel
Internet content usage experiments using a large pool of randomly
selected participating users (separated into control and test groups)
while minimally disturbing offered content is provided. In an
illustrative implementation, a content provider communicates the
parameters for a content usage experiment to a content server. A
complimentary test subject verification script operates on the content
server that determines which client computing devices are to be included
in the experiment group. In operation, a participating client computing
device requests content from the content provider's server. The content
provider's server executes the test subject verification script to
determine if the client computing device is to be considered as a test
subject. The content usage of the experiment content and non-experiment
content is tracked and compared to each other to determine if the
experiment content impacted content usage.