When creating a survey for a website, you will need to consider the space on the webpage where the survey will be displayed. The survey may need to appear as a small box in a corner of the page or as a large box in the center of the page.
The amount of information you can fit into the space, and thus the user experience, willingness to participate, and visibility of response options, depends on whether the survey content is tailored to the box or if the box is enlarged to accommodate the entire survey.
Websites can also be accessed on mobile phones or tablets, which have smaller screens. Therefore, the advice is always to adapt the survey to be able to be opened on a small screen.
Decide on the size of the survey to fit its purpose and the target audience before embedding the survey on the webpage.
Adapt the questions according to the space:
- Avoid questions that do not fit the space
- Avoid long question wordings.
- Avoid many or long answer options.
- A tip is to stick to 5-7 answer options and one line of text per option.
- Question types
- Avoid slider questions as they may cause mobile users to scroll back and forth through webpages.
- Avoid long text fields.
- Place only one question per page.
Quicksearch surveys are responsive and will adapt to the space available for the survey, but if text content does not fit within the designated space, it will create a scroll, which will affect how visitors respond to the question.