Why did my Fillout form responses drop?
The Fillout help pages give 4 common reasons. The first to rule out: People who leave before the ending page may not be recorded as a full submission, so drop-offs late in the form can lower the count.
What causes it?
People who leave before the ending page may not be recorded as a full submission, so drop-offs late in the form can lower the count.
In the Fillout help:
A submission is normally recorded when a respondent submits the form and reaches the ending (or thank you page).
Missing form submissions, read 2026-11-12.A respondent who refreshes partway through can lose what they entered, as Fillout explains, so that response may never arrive.
In the Fillout help:
Check if the respondent refreshed the page, which may have cleared their in-progress submission
Missing form submissions, read 2026-11-12.Spam protection can keep some submissions out of your results, which Fillout lists as one reason a response is missing.
In the Fillout help:
Check whether spam prevention stopped the submission from appearing in Results
Missing form submissions, read 2026-11-12.If the form's address was changed, a link shared with the old address can stop bringing in responses, while the default form link keeps working.
In the Fillout help:
check if you shared the version with the previous slug (default form links will still work)
Missing form submissions, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Make sure the link people are using is the form's share link and not a preview link.
In the Fillout help:
Check that you have sent the share link (not the preview link)
Missing form submissions, read 2026-11-12.Search your results for the name or email of someone who says they submitted, to see whether the response was recorded.
In the Fillout help:
Search for their name or email in the Results tab
Missing form submissions, read 2026-11-12.
How does Fillout work with Feder?
- Connect Fillout to Feder and it joins your Interest apps.
- When you connect Fillout, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in Fillout, one of your Interest apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Fillout.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why does my Fillout completion rate look wrong?Fillout
- Why doesn't my Fillout submission count match my billing period?Fillout
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Fillout help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.