Case Study · Conversion Rate Optimization

Turning a 60% bounce rate into a 100% enrollment lift.

Optum Bank's paid search landing page for HSA enrollments was leaking visitors before signup — a structured A/B test rebuilt the page around the enrollment action.

Role Led the CRO test — bounce diagnosis, page redesign, and A/B validation to statistical significance

2018-2020 >60% bounce rate on paid search HSA enrollment landing page A/B test with statistical significance ~$30K incremental revenue

Paid search traffic was arriving, then leaving

Optum Bank needed its paid search spend on HSA enrollments to convert visitors into signups — but the landing page was sending most of them away before they ever saw the offer.

CAPABILITY NEEDED

Convert paid search traffic into HSA enrollments

Visitors arriving from paid search needed a clear, fast path to signing up for a Health Savings Account.

Paid traffic = spend not converting to signups
WHY EXISTING PAGE FAILED

Generic landing page, no enrollment focus

The existing HSA landing page wasn't designed to drive clickthrough to enrollment, so visitors bounced before engaging.

No CRO design = visitors leave before the offer loads
STAKES

Bounce rate over 60%

More than 6 in 10 paid search visitors to the HSA enrollment page left without taking action.

60% bounce = most paid clicks produce no signup

The page wasn't built to sell the signup

Any redesign had to be built, then proven against the existing page with real traffic before it could replace it.

DESIGN

Landing page not optimized for enrollment

The page layout and messaging weren't structured to maximize clickthrough to the HSA signup flow.

Unoptimized layout = visitors drop off before signup
VALIDATION

No proof that changes would work

Any redesign needed to be validated against the current page with real visitor traffic before rolling out.

No test = no basis to commit to a redesign
REVENUE RISK

Every bounced visitor was a lost enrollment

Each visitor who bounced represented a paid-for click that produced zero return for the HSA business line.

Bounce = paid click with zero return

A structured A/B test, run to statistical significance

The HSA landing page was redesigned to maximize clickthrough to enrollment, then tested head-to-head against the original with paid search traffic.

1
Diagnose bounce drivers page audit → drop-off points

Audited the existing HSA enrollment landing page to identify where paid search visitors were disengaging.CRO Audit · Funnel Analysis

2
Redesign for enrollment clickthrough

Rebuilt the landing page layout and messaging around a single goal: maximizing clickthrough to HSA signup.Landing Page Redesign

3
Run A/B test against original

Split paid search traffic between the original and redesigned pages to measure enrollment conversion lift directly.A/B Test · Split Traffic

4
Validate with statistical significance

Ran the test until results reached statistical significance before committing to the winning variant.Statistical Significance Testing

Double the enrollments, proven with confidence

100%
Increase in HSA enrollments
Statistically significant
240
Incremental enrollments
vs. original landing page
$30K
Incremental revenue
From the redesigned page alone
60%→↓
Bounce rate reduced
Paid search → HSA page

From a leaking page to a repeatable conversion playbook

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A repeatable, test-driven CRO playbook for paid acquisition pages

Doubling enrollments with statistical confidence proved that redesign-and-test cycles directly recover value from paid search spend, turning a leaky funnel step into a reliable enrollment driver.

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Reusable redesign-and-test pattern

The audit → redesign → A/B test → significance workflow can be applied to other high-bounce acquisition pages across Optum Bank products.

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Higher return on existing paid search spend

Without increasing media spend, the same paid traffic now converts roughly twice as many visitors into HSA enrollments.

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