PagePulse Review (2026)$29 Buys Two Pages, Not a Site
By Daan Haket · Tested hands-on · written with an AI assistant · who does what
The tiers gate on two axes at once — members AND tracked pages — so either one forces the upgrade: Starter buys one person just two pages.
solos and small teams who want simple per-page analytics — heatmaps, visitor behavior and AI-summarized insights — with a genuinely free single-page tier to start.
you track many pages or a full content site (the per-page tiers climb fast), or you need deep, raw analytics rather than summarized insights.
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The free plan, on a test landing page of our own with PagePulse's tracking script pasted before </body>, as its setup screen instructs. We then sent scripted visits whose every detail we logged: 10 visitors in 11 sessions (one came back in a new tab), 4 arriving from google.com, 3 from x.com and the rest direct, 3 on a phone-sized screen, 6 clicks on 'Start free trial', 3 clicks on 'Book a demo' that led to a second page, and visits of 35, 20 or 5 seconds. A second, smaller run of 3 visitors with one click each followed later, with every message the script sent logged. We compared the dashboard with what we had done.
- The counts were right. Visitors 10 and page views 14 matched exactly, as did the source split (Google 4, X 3, direct 4 of 14 views) and the device split (3 mobile, 7 desktop). In the second run every number moved by exactly what we sent: visitors 10 to 13, page views 14 to 17, 'Start free trial' clicks up by exactly 3.
- Clicks on links and buttons are captured without extra setup and named by their text ('Start free trial', 'Book a demo'). The script itself sent one event per click.
- Engagement does not follow its own definition. The tooltip defines an engaged session as one lasting 10+ seconds, with 2+ page views, or a conversion. By that rule 8 of our first 11 sessions qualify, as they lasted 20 to 35 seconds. The dashboard showed 27%: exactly the 3 sessions with two page views. The 20-second sessions of the second run did not count either.
Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 23 Aug 2026
Five tiers, and the meter is pages plus AI insights rather than people. Starter $29: 2 pages, unlimited collaborators, 90 days retention, conversion tracking, 100 AI insights. Growth $79: 5 pages, unlimited collaborators, 2 heatmaps, a year of retention, 250 AI insights.
Frequently asked questions
What does the free plan track, and what needs a paid plan?
On the free plan, in our test on 8 October 2026, the script recorded page views, clicks on links and buttons named by their text, time on page through a ping every 15 seconds, and load times. It does not record scroll depth, and conversions need your own trackConversion call, which the dashboard marks as Starter and above. The pricing, read 10 September 2026, gives Free 1 page, 14 days of data retention and 15 AI insights a month; Starter is $29 for 2 pages and 90 days.
Can I trust the engagement rate?
Not as defined. The tooltip counts a session as engaged at 10+ seconds, 2+ page views or a conversion. In our 8 October 2026 test 8 of 11 sessions lasted 20 to 35 seconds, yet the dashboard showed 27%: only the 3 sessions with two page views. Visitor, page-view, source and device counts, by contrast, matched our log exactly.
Is traffic really unlimited?
Every tier lists unlimited traffic, with the footnote 'Designed for real-world usage. Subject to fair use.' (read 10 September 2026). The plans are metered by pages tracked and AI insights instead; only Scale ($199) names a limit on people, 10 members.
Is this a hands-on review of PagePulse?
Yes. We tested PagePulse ourselves on 2026-10-08; the section above says what we tested, what we found and what we did not test, and where a figure comes from the vendor's own documentation instead. Most of our reviews are researched rather than run; we say which is which. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Read 10 September 2026 on getpagepulse.io — the plans sit on the home page under the #pricing anchor; /pricing itself returns 404..
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
- Our own hands-on session with PagePulse (2026-10-08), written up in full further down this page.
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