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

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

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.

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

Preview of a survey with a progress bar:

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