Download Online Timer
Margaretha Palone
The online timer is an easy-to-use computer timer you can use to display a large countdown on the screen. You can set a timer in hours, minutes, or seconds quickly and easily from any computer or mobile device. Once set, the online alarm will sound at your computer's volume.
Once set, your timer with alarm will begin counting down. On screen, you can check how long it is left and what time it finishes via the digital clock. Like a stopwatch, a progress bar will appear, showing the percentage of your countdown timer's completion. Once completed, your chosen sound will be played. Make sure your computer volume is on or turned up to hear the alarm.
You can create a timer on any computer or mobile device with an internet or Wi-Fi connection. Because the timer clock shows a large on-screen countdown, it is great for being used in classrooms or when cooking, studying, practicing for an exam, or exercising. If you'd like to start a countdown timer with a date and time, you can use the online countdown instead.
Set the hour, minute, and second for the online countdown timer, and start it. Alternatively, you can set the date and time to count days, hours, minutes, and seconds till (or from) the event. The timer triggered alert will appear, and the pre-selected sound will be played at the set time.
A classroom timer or online timer helps teachers and students keep track of time. Giving a visual that shows the time lapsed and time remaining, a classroom timer helps students manage their time. The classroom timer can be programmed for the amount of time you need, making it a versatile and useful tool.
Watching the classroom timer can help students learn time management skills! A classroom timer can also be a great tool for classroom management. Here are some suggestions for making the most of this classroom-friendly online timer:
Quizzes: When you have a timed activity such as a test or quiz, students may have a hard time estimating how much time they have left to work. Solve that problem by setting up the classroom timer. That way, they can watch the shape slowly fill.
Anticipation is contagious! If you're excited (or nervous) about an upcoming event, odds are, you're not the only one. Why not use our simple but powerful countdown generator to create a countdown clock, displaying the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the date of the event. You can share your newly created countdown, so it becomes a focal point for everyone involved.
We've seen countdown timers used to generate buzz and anticipation around a party or vacation. Teams use them to stay on track and focussed, by ensuring team members have a sense of the time remaining until a critical milestone date. Event promoters and online marketers have reported significant boosts in conversion rates by using an online contdown timer to create urgency and drive action. Even NASA, uses a giant outdoor countdown clock to build anticipation and focus.
Countdowns are "sharing magnets"! A countdown to a date that means something to you and your network of friends or customers is something you want to share, right? Well guess what, so do your friends, and their friends.
We run a relatively small website but we see 200-500 social shares per day of countdowns that are displayed on our website. That does not including the thousands of our countdowns that have been shared around and embedded on other websites.
Recently a Seattle household made the news and went "viral" on Instagram with a simple display of the number of days remaining in Trump's current presidency term. Tom Petty fans were intruiged by a countdown that appeared on the official Tom Petty website in early 2018. The hugely popular video game, Fortnite received a huge amount of attention and press coverage after introducing mysterious, in-game counters, leaving fans fascinated as to what they were counting down to.Increase conversion rates using the magic of urgencyAs an online marketer or e-commerce company what's your worst enemy? For many it's customer procrastination. They want what you offer but they can always buy it later. Maybe they'll wait until they have more information, more money or more time. There are a million reasons to "do it later".
Dominant and successful online businesses such as Ebay, Amazon and Booking.com make extensive use of urgency as a means to drive action and increase conversions. You can barely visit a successful online store, or ticketing/booking website without being exposed to urgency or scarcity-based marketing tactics. "Less than 5 tickets left at this price", "Hurry, only 3 days until sale ends" or "Order by 5pm to receive next day shipping". These companies are ruthlessly analytical and their tactics are driven by data and experimentation. They use these tactics because they have proven to be effective. Countdown timers are a crucial tool in your urgency-marketing toolbox.Busy? It won't take a moment with our simple but powerful countdown maker!I made this quick video to show how simple it is to create a countdown and embed in it a blog or website.
Mobile web browsing has exploded - if you run a website you may find that more than half your visitors are using smartphones or tablets. Our countdown clocks use mobile friendly code and run very little code on the user's device meaning they won't slow down or otherwise interfere with the user experience. We go beyond mobile-friendly by auto-generating a double-resolution version of your countdown to take advantage of Retina, and other high-resolution displays that are common on many of today's most popular devices.
You wouldn't put just any code into your website. Invalid or incompatible code can break the layout of your web page or display error messages to your visitors. Worse than that, malicious JavaScript code can jeopordize your visitor's security and privacy.
We have two layers of protection built in. Firstly, the code we issue is contained in an iframe, the browser's same-origin policy prevents the iframe content from accessing code in your page, effectivly isolating our code from your website's code. Secondly we serve all our countdowns over an encrypted connection, this prevents hackers from altering the countdown before it loads into your page.
We want your countdown clock to look great, always. Every browser and operating system displays web content a little differently though. Assuming that every browser will render our countdowns with the antialiasing-level, font leading and kerning and effect compositing we want was unthinkable. That's why all our countdowns are pre-rendered by our team of Mac OS X servers so they look just right. We then cache the rendered content at edge locations all over the world so the can be delivered to your visitor, fast.
Page load time is an important factor in visitor satisfaction as well as in search engine ranking algorithms. Be careful when using third party widgets as some of them contain blocking JavaScript code or large files which can negatively impact page load times. Because our countdowns are pre-rendered the code download is very small. We also use edge caching strategies to deliver your countdowns from the location nearest to each user. When we do need to load content from the main server we use sophisticated in-memory caching to pull the data directly from RAM which is faster than reading from a hard disc.
I usually use the Blast Campaign version for email marketing and such a countdown would be helpful if you promote an event, special offer etc. If this is not possible to integrate. How can you integrate this on the website? Does squarespace offer such a template or can i intergrate this countdown timer from another supplier? Thanks for your help
I'm an elementary teacher and need to embed a countdown timer, on a page, for students to use when completing an independent reading task. Our district will not allow us to use any YouTube products with students in this age group. What other tools might I use, that will display properly on the student end? Thank you!
I wanted to have a countdown timer for a given type of issues. These issues have a duration field. The idea is that the timer would start when the issue transitions to a given status, and last the duration set in the "duration" field.
if I understand your requirement correctly, you are basically talking about SLAs (Service Level Agreement). There are a couple of SLA apps on the marketplace which offer this functionality, e.g. Time to SLA.
Hi Thought I would share a simple countdown timer which I developed using variables, triggers (new trigger panel :)) and a layer. It will countdown from 30 (this can be changed to any value via setting the default value of the variable and the reset button.) and it has a reset button which will start the countdown again. I have attached the storyline file so you can see how it is done.
I would like to see a feature where you can set the timer for all Questions within a Quiz, instead of clicking the timer box and typing the amount of time for each, individual question. I use the same amount of time for hundreds of Questions. Can I either have a timer group selection for the Event or the Quiz itself?
Hello @sudhir_kothari
the only option is changing the timer before launching the quiz. Do you have any specific use-case that would give me more information why is it important to change the timer while running the quiz?
I could then forward it as a feature request.
So say I had a record for item x and it had all that items information and one of the array keys is "countdown: 59:01:00". What is a realistic and scalable way to countdown from 59:01:00 to 00:00:00 on the SERVER side.
Instead of running a timer that updates every second on the server, simply store the start/stop times of the event and allow the clients to manage their own timers. This should not be done by decrementing by 1 every second (as setInterval and other client-side tools are not very exact) but by comparing the current timestamp to the end, and determining the difference.
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