Friday, October 5, 2012

Why Embedding Online Stopwatch in a Webpage?

Like any other technologies, online stopwatch is a logical addition to the existing stopwatch and timer technologies. We use stopwatch and timer in so many things that we lost count; sport, cooking, laboratory testing, factory product testing and many more. There are many situations when precision and time calculation is very important, therefore the widespread use of stopwatch. Without stopwatch, we cannot stop our food in the oven from burning. If you are a sprint athlete, you cannot measure your speed progress in daily basis. Many products will end up as failed products because there is no exact time measurement in their manufacturing test and process.



However, while it is understandable that we use stopwatch for the aforementioned tasks, why do we use online stopwatch? Besides adding some design or application perks in websites, many people usually do not think much about the presence of stopwatch on a webpage. They usually think that a stopwatch is only useful in physical use rather than online. However, information and communication technologies are developing and they demand more online applications to help various online works and tasks. The presence of stopwatch and timer in online media such as webpage is therefore much more appreciated in recent time.



One example of using online stopwatch is when someone joins an online examination. There are various tests and examination programs that must be done online such as online exam in a long distance college program. The presence of stopwatch or timer in this work helps long distance students to easily adjust their speed in finishing each step of exam properly within the given time limit. Online timer and stopwatch are also useful to help a worker or employee managing time when they are doing specific tasks that require step by step methods within certain time limits.


Depends on who use it and how they use it, an online stopwatch can become a really useful application. Besides, embedding an online stopwatch in your website will not hurt; chances are it will be used by someone who uses your website to do specific tasks that require counting of time. Plus, having an online stopwatch or timer ready when you are doing something will give your motivation to finish your task quicker; it has been proven that people tend to make their tasks as main priorities and will do them quickly if they can see time actually running in front of their eyes.