Prevent Bot on Forms & Surveys

Bots are common on the web, and many of them exist to scrape data or send spam. To protect our users, BlockSurvey’s Bot Prevention feature helps keep malicious bots and automated activity out of your forms and surveys. It also improves the quality and accuracy of your survey data, reduces invalid responses, protects user data, and helps prevent survey abuse.

What is bot prevention?

Bot prevention is the set of methods used to identify automated software, known as bots, and stop it from accessing or interacting with a website or application. It watches how a user interacts with a page, including how long they take to complete a task, how the mouse moves, and how they navigate between pages. These signals help identify and block bots, helping to prevent duplicate submissions and other automated abuse.

Bot Prevention gives users more security against malicious bots. It helps stop bots from accessing and manipulating forms and surveys, keeping your surveys secure. Users are better protected against automated attacks, while survey creators have more control over the quality of responses they collect.

Prevent bot submissions in forms and surveys

BlockSurvey's Bot Prevention runs on Cloudflare's Turnstile, an invisible alternative to the usual CAPTCHA. It works behind the scenes to analyze signals and determine whether the visitor is a human or an automated bot.

Unlike traditional CAPTCHAs, respondents do not have to solve puzzles, type characters, or complete additional verification steps. Bot Prevention works in the background to detect and block automated activity while keeping the survey experience smooth for real users.

With Bot Prevention, you can protect your surveys from automated submissions and abuse while maintaining a frictionless experience for legitimate respondents.

What is bot prevention used for in forms and surveys?

• Stopping bots and automated programs: Prevent bots from submitting responses to your forms and surveys.
• Protecting response quality: Help ensure responses come from real people rather than automated programs.
• Reducing invalid responses: Keep automated and suspicious submissions from affecting your survey data.
• Reducing duplicate responses: Help prevent bots from repeatedly submitting the same survey.
• Improving data quality: Collect more reliable responses by filtering out automated activity.
• Protecting user data: Help protect forms and surveys from automated activity, scraping, and abuse.

What are the advantages of bot prevention?

• Improved data quality: Keeping bots from submitting responses improves the overall quality and accuracy of your survey data.
• Reduced invalid or duplicate responses: Bot prevention helps lower the number of invalid or automated responses, making your survey data more reliable.
• Protection of user data: Bot prevention helps protect forms and surveys from automated activity and abuse.
• Protection from automated attacks: Bot prevention helps protect websites and platforms from automated attacks and scraping.
• Reduced survey abuse: Bot prevention helps stop automated programs from repeatedly submitting surveys or rapidly interacting with forms.
• Better representation of the population: By keeping bots and automated programs from submitting responses, bot prevention helps ensure your results are based on genuine respondents.

Best practices for using bot prevention

• Monitor the results: Watch your survey results for suspicious or abnormal patterns, such as a large number of identical responses.
• Test the tool: Test your survey to make sure bot prevention works as intended without affecting legitimate respondents.
• Make sure the tool is accessible: Use accessible bot prevention measures that do not create unnecessary barriers for respondents.
• Collect feedback: Gather feedback from participants about the survey experience and use it to improve future surveys.

How to use Bot Prevention in BlockSurvey

Bot Prevention is enabled by default for every new BlockSurvey, so you no longer need to manually configure it before launching your form or survey.

Once you create a BlockSurvey, Bot Prevention works in the background to help detect and block automated activity without requiring respondents to complete additional verification steps.

Conclusion

Bot prevention matters for online forms and surveys because it helps keep responses coming from real people instead of bots or automated programs. BlockSurvey's Bot Prevention works in the background to reduce automated submissions, protect response quality, and keep the survey experience smooth for legitimate respondents.

Pair it with social media gating to add another layer of control over who can participate in your surveys while keeping your data protected.