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title: "Analyzing form performance"
slug: "analyzing-form-performance"
abstract: "View form performance on a form level and on an element level."
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# Analyzing form performance

The **Performance** tab in the right pane of the Sitecore Forms dashboard provides information about how visitors interact with your forms. The tab contains a number of fields providing detailed information about a specific form. You can view form performance on a form level and on an element level.

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<summary><h2>Form performance</h2></summary>

The analytics and reporting capabilities of Sitecore Forms enable you to evaluate your forms. On the **Performance** tab, you can see an overview of the performance of your form.

> [!note]
> If you run Sitecore Forms in CMS-only mode, any functionality that depends on data collection will be unavailable and you won't be able to see form results.

You can view:

- Date range – in the **From** and **To** fields, you can set the date range of the performance report that you want to view.
- Unique views – number of unique contacts.
- Abandonments – number of contacts who did not submit the form.
- Abandonment rate – percentage of contacts not submitting the form.
- Abandonment rate, Average time, Error rate – select the radio button to view the performance of the fields on the form.

    ![Form performance tab.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/100/sitecore-experience-platform/images/F2EF4EE1F0224893A465D449E7BB189B.png)

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<summary><h2>Form field performance</h2></summary>

Sitecore Forms also captures the form field events. In this way, you can analyze the performance of a specific field. For example, if a single-line field shows a very high abandonment rate, it might not be clear to contacts what they are supposed to fill in and you could decide to phrase the field text differently.

![Form performance on form field level.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/100/sitecore-experience-platform/images/EAA9F843EEB0448DB472011EFADD79E2.png)

> [!note]
> If your performance report includes overlapping values for the same form element, this is caused by forms using the same field name for multiple instances of the form element.
>
> ![Overlapping performance values for form field example.](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/100/sitecore-experience-platform/images/FORMS-overlap.png)

**Date** – use the **From** and **To** fields to set the date range for the performance report that you want to view.

**Abandonment rate** – percentage of contacts that left the form at this field.

**Error rate** – percentage of errors triggered by validation rules.

**Average time** – time spent on this element.

> [!note]
> You can specify whether the data of a specific field item is saved to the database by selecting the Allow save checkbox.

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