2017-Q1 1.3 Spec out and complete 6 experiments that aim to increase overall AS engagement [83.3%] about activity-stream-okrs

[tspurway]

current or done:

1. ed's de-dup topsite experiment
2. screenshots
3. original tiles frecency study

[sarracini]

Updates for this quarter so far:

1. Original tiles frecency showed it was less engaging than our query - experiment done and reverted from code. Ed's showed an improvement and so we graduated it.
2. Locally Fetch Metadata lauched a 2.0 version - showing better results (search is ok, blocks are ok - what's going on here? more investigations to come)
3. Experiment # 4 for this quarter is in review right now - highlights as screenshots (https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/pull/2222/files)
4. Results from top sites screenshot experiment were no good, so it may be broken up into 3 new experiments:
   i) Always show a screenshot
   ii) Make top sites bigger in general
   iii) Use high res icons + other CSS changes?
5. Other experiments in the pipeline include:

• Remove highlight/topsites deduping (mozilla/activity-stream#2064)
• (?) Show more top sites (mozilla/activity-stream#2218)

[Mardak]

Got 5 of 6 with 6th and 7th PRs almost ready to merge potentially before end of quarter.