# Live results

Show respondents the answer counts after they submit, and put the results on a big screen.

## Turn it on

Open **Settings**, the **Submissions** tab. Under **After someone submits**, pick **Show live results**. Save, and the next respondent sees the results after they submit.

The **Live results link** under the choices is the address of the results page. Click it to copy it. Publish the form first: the link appears once the form has a public link.

![After someone submits with four cards, Show live results picked, and under them the Live results link with a copy button](https://docs.formstep.io/images/building-forms/settings-live-results.png)

Settings, Submissions tab, with Show live results picked.

## What respondents see

After they submit, respondents see the thank-you page with “Showing results in 3 seconds…”, then the results. Someone who comes back to the form after submitting goes straight to the results. If the form lets people [change their answers](https://docs.formstep.io/submissions-analytics/edit-after-submit/), the **Edit your response** button stays under the results.

![Live results under the form's cover and logo: Live, 40 responses, and a light/dark toggle at the top right; a star rating with its bars, a linear scale as columns with the average marked, and choice questions with a bar per option](https://docs.formstep.io/images/building-forms/live-results.png)

The results after a submit, and on the results page.

Each question gets a block with its answer count:

- **Choices** (single choice, multiple choice, dropdown, picture choice): a bar per option, with its share and count. The option most people picked gets the full color.
- **Switch**: the share of yes and no, with the counts under the bar.
- **Rating**: the average and the stars, then a bar per star count.
- **Linear scale**: the average, then a column per step with the average marked under it and your end labels.
- **Ranking**: options from best to worst, with the average place and the share who put each first.
- **Matrix**: a grid with a row per matrix row. Each cell is the share of that row’s answers, so every row adds up to 100%, and a stronger tint means more people chose it.

Text, email, phone, contact, file, signature and payment questions never appear, and no result shows a name or a written answer. Bars take your form’s button color.

## The results page

Every public link has a results page: the link followed by `/results`, such as `form.formstep.io/aB3dE9xY/results`. Anyone with it sees the results without answering. Open it on a projector or a TV while people answer: new responses appear within a few seconds, and on a wide screen the results sit in two columns with larger text.

Every public link of a form opens the same results, for the whole form.

## What counts

- Completed responses from the form’s public links. Answers to [requests](https://docs.formstep.io/requests/overview/) stay with the request and are not counted.
- The latest 5,000 responses. Older ones are left out, and the page says so.
- The published form: a question you add or rename shows after you publish.

Deleting a response takes it out of the results.

## Privacy and access

- A form behind a [password](https://docs.formstep.io/sharing-publishing/authentication-gate/#password-protect) keeps its results behind it: respondents who entered the password see them after they submit, and the results page does not open.

- A closed form keeps its results page. A deleted form or a revoked link takes it away.

- Switch back to another choice under After someone submits, and the results page closes.

- Questions and options show as written, in the form’s language.

> **One choice after submit**
>
> **Show live results**, **Offer another response** and **Go to a web page** are separate choices. Picking one turns the others off.

## Next steps

[Thank-you page](https://docs.formstep.io/building-forms/custom-thank-you/) — The screen before the results

[Form settings](https://docs.formstep.io/building-forms/form-settings/#submissions) — All submission behavior options

[Edit after submit](https://docs.formstep.io/submissions-analytics/edit-after-submit/) — Let people change their answers

[Password protection](https://docs.formstep.io/sharing-publishing/authentication-gate/#password-protect) — Keep the form and its results private