FormTimer times how long your forms take to fill out. Use it to make decisions based on real, live data, and to help complete burden estimates in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
FormTimer couldn't be easier to install if you're already using Google Analytics. The following will initialize FormTimer for each form on the page.
<script>
//// Google Analytics Snippet ////
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
//// Initialize FormTimer ////
$(function(){
$("form").formTimer();
})
</script>FormTimer relies on jQuery, so if you don't already have it installed, add the following before FormTimer:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script>Just login to your Google Analytics account and go to the Content => Events section.
Great news! You're welcome to use our server to track your stats if you don't want to use Google Analytics or setup your own. Just change the initial FormTimer call to
<script>
$(function(){
$("form").formTimer({
url: 'http://formtimer.presidentialinnovationfellows.org/create'
})
})
</script>Don't forget that you'll need to include jQuery above the FormTimer script.
You can access the results of your forms by specifying the URL to your webpage and the name of the form:
http://formtimer.presidentialinnovationfellows.org/results?url=mysite.com/somepage&formId=form_name
Add .json for a JSON representation of the results:
And for a JSON representation of the stats:
By default, we determine the name of a form by either its id, name, or action attribute, in order of preference. To name your form manually, you can add a data-formtimer-name attribute to the <form> tag.