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• 9 Form Optimisation Tips to Convert More Visitors

  15 février 2024, par Erin

  Forms might seem boring — that is, until you realise how powerful they are.

  No forms mean no leads.

  No leads mean no sales.

  No sales means you’ll run out of business.

  So, what do you do ?

  Optimise forms to land more leads.

  They’re a critical part of the sales funnel.

  Forms have many different purposes and can be used to :

  • Contact a company
  • Sign up for a newsletter
  • Request a demo
  • Start a free trial
  • And more

  If you want to get more leads (and ultimately more sales), then you need to optimise your forms.

  This guide will show you exactly how to do that (so you can start getting more conversions today). 

  What is form optimisation ?

  Before we dive into form optimisation, let’s back up a bit.

  Form conversion is our primary focus.

  Your form conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who submit a form divided by the total number of visitors who started the form times one hundred.

  For example, if 5,000 people started filling out your form this month and 350 submitted the form, the conversion rate would be : 

  350 / 5,000 x 100 = 7%

  So, what’s form optimisation ?

  

  It’s simply improving your forms to increase conversion rates.

  For most people, form conversion is all about increasing leads.

  Before you begin optimising your forms, it’s important you understand what’s good (and what’s not good) when it comes to form conversions.

  The average form conversion rate across all industries is 2.9%.

  This means you should expect about 3 out of every 100 visitors who start your form to submit it.

  If your form conversion is lower — or hovering around this number — then it’s important to start optimising now.

  With Matomo, you can track your form conversions with Matomo Form Analytics. Gain powerful insights into how your visitors interact with your forms with our intuitive dashboard.

  Why it’s important to optimise your forms

  Most people hear the word “forms” and think it’s boring.

  But forms are the doorway to leads.

  If you want to generate more sales, then you need to generate great forms.

  Here are five reasons you need to optimise your forms today :

  

  1. Improve conversions

  Form optimisation is really just conversion optimisation.

  But, instead of optimising and improving your site to directly improve sales conversions, you’re increasing lead conversions.

  Every smart website owner uses forms to draw people in further.

  The reality is that most of your website visitors will never return to your site.

  This means you need to do everything you can to grab their contact information so you can continue marketing to them day in and day out.

  Otherwise, you’ll lose them forever.

  When you know how to optimise your forms, you’ll be able to get a higher percentage of form viewers to fill it out.

  Higher conversions mean you get more leads, more customers, and ultimately more revenue.

  2. Capture more leads

  When you can increase your form conversion rate from 1% to 2%, it may seem insignificant.

  What’s a measly percentage point in conversions ?

  It’s a lot.

  When you’re dealing with traffic in the tens or hundreds of thousands each month, an increase in conversion rate by a whole percentile is massive.

  Let’s say you take your conversion rate from 2% to 3% on your form, and you have 70,000 visitors view the form each month.

  Well, if 1,400 people used to sign up to your email list each month at a 2% conversion rate, then at a 3% conversion rate, you’d get 2,100 new email signups every month.

  That’s a major difference.

  When you can improve your signup forms, you improve your lead generation (which is conversion rate optimisation). And the more leads you have, the more sales you’ll make in the long run.

  3. Get the most out of your traffic

  If your forms don’t perform well, then you’re wasting your time (and your traffic).

  By analysing your form data, you can quickly see what’s working and what’s not so you can optimise and improve the user experience (and your forms).

  For most people, this means getting more form viewers to fill out the form with their email and name.

  If 50,000 people visit your site each month, but only 1% of them fill out your form, you’re only getting 500 email signups per month.

  Rather than paying money to generate more traffic, why not just work on improving your website by implementing a better form ?

  If you can increase your form conversion rate to 2%, you will immediately go from 500 new subscribers per month to 1,000 per month.

  4. Spend less on acquisition

  If you’re able to get more form signups without having to generate more traffic, you just solved a pricey problem : acquisition costs.

  If you can now get 1,000 of your 50,000 visitors to sign up to your email list through a better form, then you doubled your signups.

  But that’s not all. You just cut your acquisition costs in half.

  If you spend $2,000 per month on acquisition but you’re able to get twice as many leads, then your acquisition costs are at 50% of what they used to be.

  This means you can pay the same amount but get twice as many leads.

  Or, you can pour even more money into acquisition since it’s now twice as effective so you can fuel growth even more.

  5. Grow revenue

  Forms generate revenue. It may not be direct (although, in some cases, it is). 

  But, forms will lead to sales.

  By placing optimised forms throughout your website at the right places, you will be able to capture a percentage of your visitors as leads, which means you’ll eventually make more sales.

  13 tips to optimise your forms for more conversions

  Now that you know what forms can do and why they’re important to grow your business, it’s time to dive into the best practices.

  Follow these 13 tips to ensure you’re getting the most out of your forms :

  

  1. Set form goals

  Your forms are hopeless without a goal.

  Before you set up a form on your website, ask yourself, “What am I trying to accomplish with this form ?”

  It could be :

  • Encouraging customers to reach out through a contact form
  • To get visitors to leave feedback on your product/service
  • Convert visitors into leads by giving you their email

  No matter what your goal is, make sure you’re clear on it ; otherwise, you won’t be as targeted and specific with your forms.

  Matomo Goals helps you set specific objectives for your marketing campaigns so you’re able to easily track conversions. Whether you’re looking to capture feedback or generate leads, you can leverage Matomo to see what’s working and what’s not in seconds.

  2. Remove or improve fields with high average time spent and high drop-off rates

  Delving into your Form Analytics provides invaluable insights into individual field performance. A crucial metric to focus on is the Average Time Spent. 

  If a field stands out with a significantly higher average time spent and experiences a high drop-off rate compared to others in the form, it’s a clear indicator that it’s causing frustration or confusion for your visitors.

  To address this, consider improving the field by converting it into a dropdown menu for easier completion or providing helpful text prompts. Alternatively, if the field isn’t essential, you might opt to remove it altogether.

  When you cut down on time spent and drop-offs, you’ll see your conversion rates go up.

  

  Here’s a standout example from Matomo’s Form Analytics feature : the “Overview of your needs” field is taking on average 1 minute and 37 seconds to complete. 

  To streamline this, we might want to consider a simple fix like converting it into a dropdown menu. This change would offer visitors a clearer and quicker way to select from options.

  

  Likewise, we observe that the “Overview of your needs” field experiences the highest drop-off rate, totaling 1,732 drop-offs. 

  With Form Analytics, it becomes clear what is needed to optimise forms and increase conversions.

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  3. Start with the CTA

  When crafting and optimising your forms, you need to start with the end in mind. That’s why you need to start with your business goals.

  What are you trying to do with this form ? If you want to capture more emails, then make sure that’s very clear with the call to action (CTA).

  Start building your form by beginning with the CTA.

  For example : “Sign Up Now.”

  Once you have the action you want your potential customers to take, place it on the form. Then, you can work towards crafting the rest of the form.

  4. Put it above the fold

  If your visitors can’t find your form, they won’t fill it out. It’s plain and simple.

  You need to make sure your form is visible above the fold. This is the part of the screen that’s visible to your visitors once they land on your site (without needing to scroll down).

  Always remember to test this out on both desktop and mobile to ensure anyone (using laptops or a mobile device) will see your form upon landing on your site or page.

  Don’t forget about your mobile users. More people view mobile forms than desktop forms. 

  5. Put a CTA in the headline

  Your form needs to be clear.

  You have 1-3 seconds to communicate with your site visitors what your form is all about.

  For example, if you’re trying to get email signups with a lead magnet, then tell them the benefit quickly and concisely with a CTA in the headline, like this one :

  “Subscribe to Save 10% On Your Next Order”

  This is a great example of a headline-CTA combo that tells the visitor what to do and what they get out of it.

  Matomo’s behaviour analytics features like Session Recordings let you see where visitors are clicking and spending time. For example, if people are reading the headline, but not scrolling down to read the form, it’s probably a sign you need to test a different headline.

  6. Ensure you have the right fields

  Your form fields matter.

  What information are you trying to capture from your audience ?

  One beginner mistake people make is requiring too much information and including many fields in a form.

  You want to get as much data on your audience as possible, right ? Wrong.

  If you ask for too much information, people won’t fill it out, and it will harm the user experience. You need to make it super easy.

  If you want more emails to grow your list, then stick with someone’s email (and possibly their name as well). One line for a name. One line for an email address. Keep it simple.

  If you’re after SMS as well, don’t include it on the form. Instead, create a two-step form that pops up an SMS form after someone fills out the email form.

  Multi-step forms enable you to capture those emails easily (and still get a percentage to fill out the second form) without making it seem like too much work for your audience.

  Another path is to include optional fields (that users don’t have to fill out to click submit).

  Just keep in mind that shorter forms perform better than longer ones.

  If you make them too long, it feels like work for the user and will lead to lower completion rates.

  7. Always capture email address

  If you’re unsure of what information to capture (i.e. name, number, email, occupation, age, etc.), always stick to email.

  Email is used by over 4 billion people every single day, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

  When determining which fields to include, start with email.

  

  8. Test different buttons and copy

  You need to track your form performance if you want to get the best conversions.

  One of the best form elements to start testing is your button copy.

  In most cases, form completion buttons will have the word “submit” on them.

  But you don’t have to stick with this word.

  You can (and should) experiment with different submit button copy.

  Here are a few examples of replacement words for your action button :

  • Complete
  • Sign Up
  • Join now
  • Get started

  Remember to experiment with your action button. Try a different copy. Just keep it short.

  You can also try A/B testing your form by experimenting with different colours, copy, and more.

  

  In the example above from Matomo’s A/B testing feature, we found that changing the wording of our call to action made a big difference. The new “Apply Now” button performed much better, with a 3.6% conversion rate compared to just 1.7% for the original one.

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  9. Test static vs. popup

  There are various types of online forms.

  The most common is the static form that just sits in one place and is always there.

  Another popular form type is the popup.

  This is where a form will appear based on a certain trigger like :

  • A certain amount of time on page
  • A certain distance scrolling down the page
  • If someone is a new or returning visitor

  Depending on the form software you use, you may be able to add conditional logic.

  Start tracking your form conversions

  Form optimisation is all about conversion rate optimisation.

  If you want to increase your conversions and generate more revenue, then you need to test out different forms and know how to optimise them.

  With Matomo, you can easily track, manage, and A/B test your forms so you can improve your conversions. 

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• I cannot find any way to convert multiple jpg or png to gif in vb.net using ffmpeg

  4 juillet 2017, par Silvia Fonseca

  Is there anyway i can get multiples png or jpg images to gif using ffmpeg in vb.net
  I have start a new application to capture certain frames from a video but now i want to get all the frames extracted in gif image using ffmpeg.
  This is my code so far :
  I have in fact all ready try like this but not succeed
  I have made some changes and i get the gif file but in empty state
  This is my code so far

  Imports System.Diagnostics
  
  Imports System.ComponentModel
  
  Imports System
  
  Imports System.IO
  
  Public Class Form1
  
  Dim video = ""
  
  Dim startInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("ffmpeg.exe")
  
  Dim frame As Long 'individual frames
  
  Dim tempdir As String = "C:\avitogifconverter\" ' images temp directory
  
  Dim DestPath As String = "C:\avitogifconverter\"
  
  Public Declare Auto Function FindWindowNullClassName Lib "user32.dll" Alias "FindWindow" (ByVal lpClassname As Integer, ByVal lpWindownName As String) As Integer
  
  Dim Counter As Integer = 0
  
  
  
  Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
  
      My.Computer.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(tempdir)
  
      TextBox1.Text = "exp:-->video.avi or webm or flv"
  
      TextBox1.Clear()
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  End Sub
  
  
  
  
  
  Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
  
      Dim p As Process = Process.Start("cmd", "/k ffmpeg.exe -i " + TextBox1.Text + " -filter:v fps=1/15 C:\avitogifconverter\out%02d.jpg")
  
      p.WaitForExit()
  
  
  
      If p.HasExited Then
  
          MsgBox("The Extraction Are Finish...")
  
      End If
  
  
  
  End Sub
  
  
  
  Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
  
  
  
  End Sub
  
  
  
  Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
  
      Label3.Text = "cmd" + "/k ffmpeg.exe -i " + TextBox1.Text + " -filter:v fps=1/15 C:\avi to gif converter\out%02d.jpg"
  
  End Sub
  
  
  
  Private Sub Button3_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
  
  
  
  
  
      If (OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK) Then
  
          'TextBox1.Text = OpenFileDialog1.FileName
  
          TextBox1.Text = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(OpenFileDialog1.FileName)
  
      End If
  
      If TextBox1.Text = Nothing Then
  
          Return
  
      End If
  
      If TextBox1.Text <> Nothing Then
  
          'My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyFile(TextBox1.Text, DestPath)
  
      End If
  
  
  
  End Sub
  
  
  
  Private Sub Button4_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
  
      Dim args As String 'declare args
  
      args = " -framerate 1/5 -i C:\avitogifconverter\out%02d.jpg -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p C:\avitogifconverter\out.gif "
  
      Dim proc As New Process
  
      Dim proci As New ProcessStartInfo
  
      proci.FileName = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "\ffmpeg.exe"
  
      proci.Arguments = args
  
      proci.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
  
      proci.CreateNoWindow = True
  
      proci.UseShellExecute = False
  
      proc.StartInfo = proci
  
      proc.Start()
  
      Do Until proc.HasExited = True
  
          Me.Text = "Saving"
  
      Loop
  
      Me.Text = "your video done"
  
  
  
      MsgBox("Done")
  
  
  
      'IO.Directory.Delete(tempdir, True)
  
  End Sub
  
  End Class

• Evolution #3967 (Fermé) : Suivre les redirections http/https/proxy

  27 juin 2017, par goldstein goldstein

  De Willy Destrez (via spip-zone)

  pour faire suite à la discussion sur le forum http://forum.spip.net/fr_267345.html, je lance ce nouveau fil de discussion.

  Comme je le disais, le RSSI a effectué des tests et sa conclusion est la suivante :

  Alors pour faire court, le spip_loader construit ses connexions réseaux "à la main" (sans être péjoratif du tout) au travers d’appels de fsockopen.

  Le type de flux désiré (UDP, TCP, SSL/TLS) se fait au moment de l’ouverture de la socket réseau.
  fsockopen("www.ac-amiens.fr", 80, ... ) pour http
  fsockopen("udp ://dns.ac-amiens.fr", 53, ... ) pour DNS
  fsockopen("ssl ://www.ac-amiens.fr", 443, ... ) pour https
  fsockopen("tls ://smtp.ac-amiens.fr", 465, ... ) pour du smtps
  etc...

  Dans le cas d’un proxy, la connexion ne se fait pas vers le serveur de destination mais on ouvre une socket simple (tcp) vers le serveur proxy et ensuite, on effectue des demandes de connexions au "vrai" serveur au travers de cette socket.

  Là où ça se complique trop, c’est dans dans connexions "mixtes" : bascule http vers https lors d’une redirection (type 301 redirect) car le mode connexion pour un flux chiffré (TLS ou SSL) réclame de nombreuses opération supplémentaires (helo, handshake, vérification des certificats sources et destinations etc...) et toutes ces opérations ne sont pas implémentées dans les fonctions utilisées par spip_loader (et peut être spip aussi...).
  Bref, c’est une implémentation complète d’un client http qu’il faudrait intégrer.

  Ce qui était parfaitement suffisant dans le cas d’une connexion "en clair" se révèle maintenant inopérant.
  A moins de vouloir réinventer la roue, il semblerait bien plus efficace d’abandonner le mode "à la main" pour privilégier un client http plus complet (via la libcurl par exemple, exhaustive de ce point de vue).
  C’est, à ne pas douter, ce que les devs de spip vont prochaine devoir implémenter.

  En mode transitoire, la solution serait de ne pas faire de renvoi http=>https tant que les mises à jours ne sont pas disponibles, ou, à défaut, créer un miroir local des dépôts SPIP accessible en http.

  La dessus, il à modifier le spip_loader (fichier joint) pour prendre en charge les serveurs hébergés derrière un proxy.

  Cela permet de suivre un redirect (301) de http vers https qui n’est pas implémenter dans la version actuelle.

  Le script ne change rien à ceux qui n’ont pas php5-curl (ou php-curl en php7) ou qui n’ont pas de proxy de défini.

  Il continue ses investigations afin de permettre à nouveau le fonctionnement de la mise à jour des dépôts non fonctionnelle également (tout comme "mise à jour auto" de Couteau Suisse)
  Cordialement