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How to Survey a Percentage of your Website Visitors

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Here is a great tip for anyone that uses our embedded surveys in their website and wants to survey only a portion of their visitors.

Yesterday a customer asked how to use this feature and we thought it would make a great mini-tutorial. This customer wanted to survey a small percentage of this visitors, 10%, and for the other 90% he did not want the survey to show up.

It is actually one of those nifty advanced features in SurveyGizmo that can be used very easily. First you’ll want to get the JavaScript code to embed your survey into website. You can find this under the Publish tab in your survey.

Then to get the survey to “appear” on your website only 10% of the time you’ll want to add: &sg_freq=0.1 to the end of the JavaScript code’s SRC element. Like this:

 

The 0.1 tells SurveyGizmo to render the survey only 10% of the time (0.5 would be 50%, etc). Otherwise the survey will simply not appear, and the visitor will never know it was there. Nifty, huh?

This is pretty quick and easy and a great way to get a random sampling of the people who come to your site — perfect for high traffic sites without interrupting the majority of your site’s traffic.

Enjoy!

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  • Bruce

    Hope you also add this to the tutorials page, so it isn’t listed only on the blog. Thanks!

  • http://www.surveygizmo.com Brittany Heidtke

    Hey Bruce! Thanks for the suggestion. We’ve added a link back to this post on the tutorials page. Go check the tutorials page out!

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Brittany is a marketing manager for SurveyGizmo. She is a jill-of-all-trades spreading the word about SurveyGizmo, running campaigns, monitoring analytics, hand writing cards, blogging, just to name a few. She hails from Chicago, has three dogs, Gracie, Molly (the three-legged wonder dog), and Sophie, and wants to learn to fly fish this summer.

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