How to Add a Progress Bar to Your Surveys

A progress bar helps respondents know how long a survey is. This transparency improves survey response rates. ProProfs Survey Maker lets you add a progress bar to your surveys and make the time-spent transparent.

By adding a progress bar to your surveys, you can:

Increase the completion rate of your surveys by informing users about the number of questions taken and remaining
Facilitate a focused survey-taking procedure for respondents

Here’s what a progress bar will look like in your survey:

Percentage Progress Bar

Survey with Percentage Progress Bar enabled

Proportion Progress Bar

To Add a Progress Bar in Your Survey

Step 1: On your ProProfs Survey Maker dashboard,

Click Settings
Navigate to Progress Bar in the General tab
Click to enable Progress Bar

Navigating to Progress Bar

Note: When you are using branching & page break in your surveys, you should not add the progress bar for a better survey-taking experience for the respondents.

Step 2:

Choose the type of progress bar: Percentage or Proportion. Here we will choose the Percentage bar option.
Save your changes and click ‘Create’ to the Survey Editor.

Enabling Progress Bar

Note: Percentage shows the percentage of pages completed in a survey, while Proportion indicates the number of questions answered out of the total.

Step 3: Click ‘Preview’ to check the working of the progress bar.

Preview the Survey

Preview of a survey with a progress bar:

Survey Preview with Progress Bar

Note: The progress bar works in One Question and All (Modern) mode.

Now that you have learned how to add a progress bar, you can try adding it to your survey.

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