> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://formbricks.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Reading Survey Results

> Every activated survey has two views: a Summary that aggregates answers question by question, and a Responses table with one row per submission.

Open any survey and you land on its results. There are two tabs, and they answer different questions.

* **Summary** — what did people say, in aggregate?
* **Responses** — what did *this* person say?

## Summary

The Summary tab opens with five figures for the survey as a whole, then a card per question.

![The survey summary, with completion stats and per-question breakdowns](https://mintcdn.com/formbricks/Glz_qG2pDZ_zNBao/images/surveys/analysis/summary.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Glz_qG2pDZ_zNBao\&q=85\&s=30b278ab90886cc9f779658ff636e2cf)

The headline figures:

| Figure | What it counts |
| - | - |
| **Impressions** | How many times the survey was displayed. |
| **Starts** | How many people began answering, with the share of impressions. |
| **Completed** | How many reached the end. |
| **Drop-Offs** | How many started but did not finish, with the share of starts. |
| **Time to Complete** | How long a completed response takes, once there are enough to average. |

Below them, each question gets its own card in survey order. What the card shows depends on the question: open text lists individual answers, choice questions show each option with its share, and rating-style questions show the distribution.

## Responses

The Responses tab is one row per submission, with a column per question.

![The response table, one row per submission](https://mintcdn.com/formbricks/Glz_qG2pDZ_zNBao/images/surveys/analysis/responses.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=Glz_qG2pDZ_zNBao\&q=85\&s=e75af97388bd814e93bf3e99eac3a6da)

The table also carries columns you did not ask for directly:

* **Status** — whether the response was completed or abandoned part-way.
* **Person** — the [contact](https://formbricks.com/docs/platform/features/contacts.md) who answered, or *Anonymous*.
* **Tags** — any [tags](https://formbricks.com/docs/surveys/general-features/tags.md) applied to the response.
* **[Hidden fields](https://formbricks.com/docs/surveys/general-features/hidden-fields.md)** — values passed in with the survey rather than answered.
* **[Metadata](https://formbricks.com/docs/surveys/general-features/metadata.md)** — source, URL, browser, OS, device and country.

The table is wide, so scroll horizontally to reach the later columns, or use the column settings to hide the ones you do not need.

## Filtering and exporting

Both tabs share the same **Filter** and time-range controls at the top, so a filter you set on the Summary carries to the Responses table. Filter on any answer, tag, hidden field or metadata value.

**Download** offers three scopes, each as CSV or Excel:

* **All responses** — everything, ignoring the current filter.
* **Filtered responses** — only what the current filter matches.
* **Selected responses** — only the rows you ticked in the table.


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