Will A/B tests run for Chinese visitors?

Only if the experimentation host answers. From a Beijing residential line cdn.optimizely.com failed all 9 requests we observed. Because those scripts usually load before paint, the visible consequence is not an untested visitor — it is a page that does not render.

Is the platform itself reachable?

The marketing site answered in a median 611ms and painted at 2.1 seconds, and still completed none of three attempts inside 60 seconds. Reachability and completion are separate questions, and only the second one describes what a visitor gets.

By the 21YunBox China Engineering Team·Reviewed 2026-08-30·Verified against Optimizely's own documentation

Does Optimizely work in China?

Optimizely answered from inside China and never finished loading — and experimentation makes that failure sharper than most. Measured fact: requested three times from a probe inside mainland China (Alibaba Cloud cn-zhangjiakou), optimizely.com returned a first byte in a median 611ms and painted at 2.1 seconds, then completed none of the three attempts within a 60-second ceiling. Separately, the experimentation CDN host cdn.optimizely.com failed 9 of 9 requests from a Beijing residential broadband line. That second number is the operationally important one: an A/B script is normally loaded before paint so the original variant does not flash, which means an unreachable experimentation host does not degrade the page, it holds it. Delivery from inside the mainland changes this, and it is the same act that brings the ICP filing with it.

What we measured from inside mainland China

Fact	Primary source
Requested three times from a probe inside mainland China (Alibaba Cloud `cn-zhangjiakou`), `optimizely.com` returned a first byte in a median 611ms and painted at 2.1 seconds, then completed none of three attempts within a 60-second ceiling.	21YunBox — China delivery census, measured from inside mainland China
Measured across 88 real page loads from a Beijing China Mobile residential broadband line on 2026-08-30, `cdn.optimizely.com` failed 9 of 9 requests. Experimentation scripts are typically loaded before first paint to avoid flashing the original variant, so a host that never answers blocks rendering rather than degrading it.	21YunBox — paired measurement from a Beijing residential broadband line
Across 88 page loads on that line, 102 hosts never returned a response and 101 of them were third parties, while every one of the 57 sites that failed to finish loading returned a first byte itself.	21YunBox — paired measurement from a Beijing residential broadband line

Sources verified by the 21YunBox China engineering team on 2026-08-30.

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