I am really struglling tring to get this to work what i what is if my php script returns success. echo success I want it to should a message that says congratulations its all setup but stay for aleast 5 seconds but it never seems to work i have tried elay etc but still getting issues please help. here is my code it works but for about a second it then redirects far to quick to read it. if($.trim(data) == 'Congratulations'){ setTimeout(function(){ $('#congrats').fadeIn(1000,function(){ window.location.href='http://example.co.uk/tour/first-time-users'; }); },5500);