Of the two million people who used the online census form last night, 670,000 of them apparently forgot to hit the Send button. That’s just over 33%. And this isn’t 33% of the nation — it’s 33% of the people who felt comfortable enough with technology to opt in to doing it online!

Having said that, when I clicked send, it told me that I hadn’t completed all of the details for one of the householders. I went back to that householder and it said “Status: Complete”, so I clicked send again and this time it worked. Still… surely you don’t just close the browser after you get an error message?

Other than that, it was a very nice web application (thank god it wasn’t another Win32 E-tax!), used SSL, used JavaScript to tailor the form as you were typing it — surprisingly well done.