Create a Countdown Clock
Instantly create a beautiful, animated countdown clock, to share or embed in your website. Count down to a date with your own unique countdown timer.
Features and Benefits
Create excitement, focus and urgency
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 countdown timer to create urgency and drive action.
Promote online sharing
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.
A countdown to a product launch, a wedding, or a sale ending is something people pass along. Game launches and livestream premieres often use the same idea to build anticipation.
Increase conversion rates using the magic of urgency
As 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!
Pick your date and time, choose a style, and copy the embed code into your website or blog. There is nothing to install.
Mobile-friendly countdown clocks
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. They also look sharp on high-resolution screens. Most countdown styles that use images send those screens a double-resolution version, and our email countdown images are made at double resolution too.
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 jeopardize your visitor's security and privacy.
We have two layers of protection built in. First, most of our embed codes put the countdown inside an iframe, and the browser's same-origin policy stops the code inside the iframe from accessing your page, keeping our code separate from your website's code. Second, we serve all our countdowns over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, which stops anyone from altering a countdown before it loads into your page.
Security for you and your visitors
Pre-rendered to pixel-perfection
We want your countdown clock to look great, always. Every browser and operating system displays text a little differently, so many of our countdown styles draw their digits and labels as images on our own servers. That way they look the same everywhere. We cache those images at edge locations all over the world so they reach your visitors 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. Our countdowns don't load any large scripts, so there is very little to download. We also use edge caching strategies to deliver your countdowns from the location nearest to each user.
Fast page loads
