Feedback from the people using your website tells you what’s broken, what’s confusing and what they wish you offered. It helps turn a bad experience into a good one and first-time visitors into repeat customers.
Website feedback is any feedback collected through your site or web app: a feedback button, a survey, a rating, a review request or a contact form. This guide explains the three kinds of website feedback and walks through how to collect, organize and act on each one.
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Three kinds of website feedback
Website feedback falls into three groups, named for how it’s collected. You need a plan for each, because each tells you something different.
Unprompted feedback. The user decides to tell you something, usually by clicking a feedback button or filling in a contact form. Because people speak up when something bothers them, unprompted feedback tends to be about bugs, confusion and frustrations. That makes it the most useful source for fixing problems.
Triggered feedback. You ask for it, at a moment chosen by the user’s behavior: after they finish a task, use a new feature, or are about to leave a page. Short surveys and ratings are the usual formats. Triggered feedback reaches people who would never click a feedback button.
Representative feedback. You ask a defined group of customers how they feel about you overall, usually after a purchase, a renewal or a cancellation. Reviews and Net Promoter Score surveys are common examples. This feedback measures your relationship with customers rather than uncovering specific problems.
A step-by-step guide to collecting website feedback
Step 1. Collect unprompted feedback with a feedback button
Start with unprompted feedback, because it catches problems you don’t know about. The simplest way is a feedback button on every page of your site or app, so users can report a problem at the moment they hit it. Keep a contact page too, for people who look for one.
A good feedback button does more than collect text. It lets users send a screenshot of what they see, and it automatically captures the page URL, browser, operating system and any JavaScript errors. Without those details, your team has to email the user back and ask, and many never reply.
Step 2. Collect triggered feedback with surveys and ratings
Once unprompted feedback is in place, add triggered feedback at key moments. Ask users to rate a page, a new feature or a support conversation. Keep it short: one rating and an optional comment gets far more responses than a ten-question survey.
Choose your triggers carefully. A survey that appears on every page, or interrupts someone mid-task, annoys people and lowers the quality of the answers you get.
Step 3. Collect representative feedback with reviews and NPS
Finally, ask customers about their overall experience. Send a review request or NPS survey after a purchase, at renewal or when someone cancels. These responses are easy to count and track over time, which makes them useful for spotting trends and reporting to the rest of the business.
Step 4. Ask the right questions
Collect only what you’ll use. Start with a goal that feedback can help with, then write questions that serve it.
For example, if too many visitors leave your pricing page without signing up, a single question such as “Did you find what you were looking for?” on that page can reveal why. If your goal is fewer bug reports that need follow-up, add a category field (“Bug”, “Question”, “Idea”) to your feedback form so each report reaches the right person.
Step 5. Organize feedback in the tools your team already uses
Storing and organizing feedback matters as much as collecting it. A very small team can get by with a shared inbox for a while, but feedback quickly gets lost there.
The better approach is to send feedback straight into the tools your team already works in, such as Jira, GitHub, Trello, Slack or your help desk. Bug reports become issues your developers can pick up, and support questions land where your support team will see them. Nobody has to check another dashboard.
Step 6. Respond promptly and politely
There are really three steps to website feedback:
- Collect it
- Respond to it
- Act on it
Many businesses skip the second. When users hear nothing back, they assume nobody read their feedback and stop sending it. A short reply, from a person or an automated acknowledgement, tells them you’ve received it and what happens next. For more on this, see our 11 ways to respond and act on customer feedback.
Step 7. Decide what to act on
You can’t act on everything. These rules help you choose:
- Fix bugs first. If something is broken, treat it as a priority, especially if it blocks sign-ups or payments.
- Look for patterns. Group similar feedback and count it. If the same complaint or idea keeps coming up, act on it. AI tools can help here: many issue trackers and help desks can now summarize and group large volumes of feedback, which makes recurring themes easier to spot. Still read a sample of the original reports yourself, because the detail is often where the fix is.
- Weigh the cost. For everything else, score each suggestion on its likely value, how much it would cost and whether you have the people to do it.
When you do act on feedback, tell the people who asked for it. It shows that feedback leads somewhere, and they’ll be more likely to send it again.
Collect website feedback with Saber Feedback
Saber Feedback is a simple feedback button for websites, web apps and customer portals. Screenshots come with the user’s browser, operating system and any JavaScript errors, and your form can include ratings, categories and Net Promoter Score questions. Feedback goes into Jira, Slack, Trello, Zendesk, Asana, GitHub, GitLab and more. Every plan includes unlimited page views and unlimited feedback.
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