Free Online Polls

Most participants are willing to spend on average up to five minutes completing an online poll. In practice, this means that asking more than 4-5 questions will reduce your response rate.

When making a poll, short questions and short answers are best. Avoid asking open-ended questions, and use descriptive text instead of numbers when presenting choices.

Include social tracking links in your "thank you" page to encourage people to share your poll on additional platforms, improving your overall sample size.

Include visual, audio and video elements to help your poll stand out and effectively communicate your message to respondents.

Include question randomisation designed to capture inattentive or fake respondents. By automatically displaying question choices in a random order to every respondent you can filter out data that could skew your poll results.

Yes/No questions that lack any third option can create erroneous data. When confronted with binary choices, respondents will answer either yes or no when the honest response may be entirely different.

Assure your participants that any personal data you ask for will be kept safe and won’t be shared with any third parties. By respecting respondent anonymity and stating this clearly at the start of your survey, you can increase the response rate. Our anonymous poll maker makes this easy to implement.