Page Canary

Weekly browser walks of your checkout, booking or contact form, plus daily page checks

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What is Page Canary?

Page Canary is a website audit tool. A website monitoring tool that walks your booking, contact form or checkout in a real browser every week, records the session, and runs daily checks for broken links, JavaScript errors, mobile layout faults and expiring SSL.

Page Canary is a website monitoring service built around a narrower question than most uptime tools ask: not whether a URL responds, but whether the thing visitors actually came to do still works. It scans a public site, works out the critical flow (a booking, a contact form, a signup or a checkout), then repeats that journey in a real browser once a week and records the whole session. The walk stops short of completing anything: nothing gets booked, bought or registered, and a contact form only submits after the site owner gives permission. Alongside the weekly journey, Page Canary loads up to 15 key pages every day on desktop and on a phone-sized screen. Those daily passes surface broken internal links (re-verified in a real browser before being reported), JavaScript errors that appear in production, layout elements that overflow the mobile viewport, a menu that will not open, broken images, expired domain registrations and SSL certificates approaching expiry. Findings land in a dashboard graded high, medium and low, with plain-English fix instructions attached. The alerting logic is deliberately conservative. A problem has to appear on two separate checks before an email goes out, which cuts down on one-off noise but means a fast-moving outage is not reported instantly. Owners also get a note when the issue clears. The product suits small shop and SaaS owners, independent developers and agencies running care plans. Agencies are the clearest audience: a single dashboard lists every client site, and the tiered plans ($99, $249 and $499 per month for 15, 50 and 150 client sites) come with branded monthly health reports in early access, written for non-technical clients. Compared with synthetic monitoring suites, Page Canary is simpler and browser-first but lighter on configurability: there is no mention of custom scripted assertions beyond the detected flow, or of integrations with incident tools.

How do you use Page Canary?

  1. 1Run a free scan of your site
    Enter your URL on the free trial page to trigger a scan with no account needed. It takes about a minute and shows what is already broken.
    Page Canary — Run a free scan of your site
  2. 2Add the site to your account
    Start on the free plan and paste in the URL. Page Canary discovers your pages and works out the critical flow on its own, with no code or setup.
    Page Canary — Add the site to your account
  3. 3Confirm the critical flow
    Review the booking, checkout, signup or contact form it identified. Contact form submissions only send once you explicitly allow them.
  4. 4Read the first recording and report
    Open the dashboard to watch the recorded walk and review issues sorted by priority. Each item comes with plain-English fix steps.
  5. 5Set alert expectations and upgrade
    Alerts arrive by email once an issue shows on two checks. Move to Starter or Pro when you need more sites or more flows per site.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Weekly recorded walks of the detected critical flow, so you can watch exactly where a funnel breaksAI
  • Daily desktop and mobile checks across up to 15 key pages per siteAI
  • Problems must appear on two checks before an email is sent, which limits false alarmsAI
  • Free tier covers one site with a weekly flow and daily page checks, no card requiredAI
  • Agency plans put every client site in one dashboard with branded monthly reportsAI

Cons

  • Alerts wait for a second confirmation, so a hard outage is not reported on the first failed checkAI
  • Daily coverage is capped at 15 pages, which is thin for large catalogues or content sitesAI
  • No integrations with Slack, PagerDuty or ticketing tools are described; alerts are email onlyAI
  • Branded client reporting is still in early access and gated behind agency plansAI
  • No public API or custom scripted test authoring is mentioned, so flows rely on automatic detectionAI

How much does Page Canary cost?

Free trial

A free scan needs no signup. The Starter plan includes a 14-day free trial, and a refund applies if no high-priority issue is found in 30 days.

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Pricing

Free plan for one site with one weekly critical flow and daily checks of 15 pages. Starter is $10/mo for up to 5 sites and 3 flows each. Pro is $50/mo with unlimited sites and 5 flows per site. Agency tiers run $99, $249 and $499/mo for 15, 50 and 150 client sites.

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Support

Email support is listed on Starter, with priority email support on Pro. Agency enquiries are handled over email rather than sales calls.

Features

Weekly recorded browser walks of booking, contact form, checkout or signup flows; daily desktop and mobile checks of up to 15 key pages; broken link and image detection; production JavaScript errors; mobile layout and menu testing; SSL, domain and search visibility checks; AI page review on paid plans; email alerts with fix steps.

Frequently asked questions about Page Canary

  • How much does Page Canary cost?
    Free plan for one site with one weekly critical flow and daily checks of 15 pages. Starter is $10/mo for up to 5 sites and 3 flows each. Pro is $50/mo with unlimited sites and 5 flows per site. Agency tiers run $99, $249 and $499/mo for 15, 50 and 150 client sites.
  • Does Page Canary offer a free trial?
    A free scan needs no signup. The Starter plan includes a 14-day free trial, and a refund applies if no high-priority issue is found in 30 days.
  • How do you use Page Canary?
    The walkthrough on this page covers 5 steps: 1. Run a free scan of your site 2. Add the site to your account 3. Confirm the critical flow 4. Read the first recording and report 5. Set alert expectations and upgrade.
  • What platforms does Page Canary support?
    Page Canary is available on Web App.
  • What are the limitations of Page Canary?
    Alerts wait for a second confirmation, so a hard outage is not reported on the first failed check. Daily coverage is capped at 15 pages, which is thin for large catalogues or content sites. No integrations with Slack, PagerDuty or ticketing tools are described; alerts are email only.

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Added10/21/2026

Platforms

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Pricing

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