Website surveys take many forms - from discrete slide-ins and pop-ups to page overlays.Â
As to the use cases, you can trigger the surveys on your website as:Â
The survey questions you ask depend on your goals and the website feedback survey type.
When brainstorming them, bear in mind that you want the survey questions to find out the visitors':
Knowing what drives or stops your audience will help you write better content or plan the experiments you run.Â
We include some example questions in the survey template at the top of this page. Feel free to check it out.
From the UX perspective, a survey should be visible but not distracting. When you decide where to display one, consider the website design. Be mindful of the elements of your site, like CTA buttons that you wouldn't like to cover up.Â
In terms of landing pages, analyze the conversions funnel and the analytics data to find underperforming sites or the sites with high drop-off rates. Trigger a website feedback survey there.Â
If surveys placed on those sites get low response rates, consider asking for feedback on the page just before those with high drop-off rates.Â
Alternatively, trigger a website feedback survey on the most vital pages for your business. These could be case studies, use cases, or pricing pages. Do so regardless of their performance. Even if the pages have satisfying conversion rates, there may always be some room for improvement.Â
Also, the landing pages communicating your offer are worth examining. Ask for feedback on their clarity. And find out if they answer all the questions your audience has.Â
Since you don't want to distract your website visitors from the content of their website, you don't want to trigger a website survey too early on.
A good practice is to make the survey appear once the visitors have spent some time on your site. As a rule of thumb, you can ask for feedback once a visitor has spent min. 30 secs. on the page or has scrolled down halfway through the page. But, everything depends on your site's content and how users behave on it.
By asking for feedback on your website, you can learn more about your website's visitor's expectations. You can also find out how they perceive the content of your website and your business offer.Â
Website surveys can gather quantitative feedback - if you ask for a Net Promoter Score (NPS), about Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), or for a Customer Effort Score (CES).Â
But, most of all, website surveys are a great way to gather qualitative feedback. They provide you with information you won't otherwise obtain from web analytics data. Choose a great website feedback tool for best results.