PageVitals Zapier integrationAutomate PageVitals with Zapier.
The PageVitals Zapier integration gives you 1 trigger, 2 actions and 0 searches. Launch performance tests from any other app, and hear about it when a test series finishes, so speed checks stop depending on someone remembering to run them.
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What the PageVitals Zapier integration actually does
It links PageVitals, which monitors how fast your website loads using lab tests and data from real visitors, to Zapier, the tool that chains apps without code. You build a Zap (one starting event, then the steps after it) and PageVitals either starts it when tests finish, or runs tests inside it.
Three results teams build first. A test report in the channel: Test Series Completed starts a Zap that posts in the web team's channel each time a run ends, so nobody has to open the dashboard to know it happened. A check after every release: when your deploy tool or project board marks a release as done, Run Test Suite launches the tests of your pages straight away. A checkout path under watch: Run Multistep Test replays a scripted journey, such as adding to cart then paying, whenever another app tells it to.
What Zapier does not do here. The only trigger is polled: Zapier checks PageVitals on a timer, so a finished series reaches the Zap at the next check, not the moment it ends. There is no search, and no action to add a website, edit a test or change its settings: those stay in PageVitals. And a Zap never goes back in time: test series finished before you switch it on are not picked up.
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Zapier words in one minute
Seven words come back on every line of this page. Here they are once, in ordinary language.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one starting event, then one or more steps that run each time that event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it. PageVitals has one: a test series ends.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or, here, launches a PageVitals test for you.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and your plan counts those.
- Polling vs instant
- A polling trigger is checked by Zapier on a timer. An instant trigger is pushed to Zapier by the app itself, with no wait.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets a condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
- Multi-step Zap
- Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
What it really costs to run
PageVitals is not a premium app on Zapier, so it works from the free plan. The meter that matters is the task count.
- Premium appNo, free plan works
- Trigger0 tasks
- Successful action1 task each
- Free plan100 tasks a month, 2 steps
The trigger costs nothing, however often Zapier checks. Each action that succeeds counts as one task, including Run Test Suite and Run Multistep Test, and a failed one is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and checks Test Series Completed every 15 minutes, but it only builds two-step Zaps: one trigger, one action. Add a filter or a second action and the Zap needs a paid plan, which also shortens the check interval.
Connect PageVitals to Zapier in 3 steps
- 01
Open your Apps page
In Zapier, go to the Apps page of your account. That is where every connection lives: your account of an app, linked once, then reused by every Zap that needs it.
- 02
Add the connection
Click + Add connection, type PageVitals in the dialog, pick it, then click Add connection. You need a PageVitals account with the website you want to test already set up.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
Sign in to PageVitals in the tab that opens and let Zapier access the account. From then on, any Zap can pick this connection from a list instead of asking you to log in again.
Your first Zap: log every finished test series and tell the team
GoalWhen a PageVitals test series completes, add a row to the performance sheet and post a message in the web team's channel.
- 01
Build: pick the trigger
Create a Zap, choose PageVitals, then Test Series Completed, and select your connection. Paste the Website ID of the site whose tests you want to follow.
- 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items from your account, so you map the next steps on a real finished series rather than an empty example.
- 03
Add the sheet row
Add the spreadsheet step and map what PageVitals sent into the columns of your performance sheet, one row per finished series.
- 04
Add the message
Add a third step that posts in the web team's channel. With it, the Zap becomes multi-step and needs a paid plan; on the free plan, keep just one.
- 05
Test, then publish
Test each step once and read what came back. When it looks right, click Publish to switch the Zap on. Only series that finish after that will start it.
The PageVitals trigger
1 event starts a Zap when something happens in PageVitals. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
Test Series Completed
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a test series completes.”
Starts your Zap when a series of tests finishes on the website you chose in PageVitals. It is the natural point to pass the outcome on to the people who will act on it.
The 2 PageVitals actions
PageVitals gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Run Multistep Test
ActionIn Zapier“Triggers a run of a multistep test.”
Replays one scripted journey you built in PageVitals, such as login then checkout, rather than a single page load.
Run Test Suite
ActionIn Zapier“Runs tests of the pages in your PageVitals account.”
Launches the tests of the pages set up in your PageVitals account, on demand, from whatever event starts the Zap.
When it breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to PageVitals, so the known traps are the ones every Zap shares. Around performance tests, they show up in specific ways.
Read these before you publish. If a Zap is already misbehaving, the Zapier troubleshooting guide walks through the usual causes.
Past test series are never picked up
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Series that finished earlier stay out of it, and loading that history is a separate job.A test that launches the next test
Test Series Completed followed by Run Test Suite on the same site sets itself off again and again, and burns through your task count fast.A sudden wave can be held back
If the trigger returns a huge batch at once, for instance after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the run back.The same series never runs twice
Zapier remembers what it has already seen on a polling trigger, so checking again does not start the Zap a second time for the same series.
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