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What's a good Form Abandonment Rate?

A good Form Abandonment Rate for a local business is 40.0% or lower. Percentage of users who started but did not complete a form. An excellent Form Abandonment Rate — the top tier Karbon Agency grades client campaigns against — is 20.0% or lower, while 60.0% marks the minimum acceptable tier.

The three tiers Karbon grades against

TierValueWhat it means
Minimum60.0%The floor. Below this, something is broken.
Recommended40.0%The tier a healthy campaign should hit.
Excellent20.0%Top-tier performance worth defending.

Lower is better for this metric.

How it's calculated

((Form Starts - Submissions) / Form Starts) * 100

Why Form Abandonment Rate matters

The inverse of completion rate but often more actionable. High abandonment on specific fields reveals exactly where users bail.

Related benchmarks

Conversion Rate

Good: 3.0% or higher

Cost Per Conversion

Good: $25.00 or lower

Cost Per Lead

Good: $15.00 or lower

Cost Per Booking

Good: $8.00 or lower

Where does your Form Abandonment Rate land?

Karbon Agency grades every client campaign against these exact tiers, live on a dashboard — no guessing, no quarterly PDFs.

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