Send a client a private link to your report

Upload the HTML file, or a ZIP containing an index.html plus its CSS, JS and images, and Pagegoat returns a link at pagegoat.com/sites/your-slug. Before you send it, set the visibility. Private restricts the page to people you name by email, so anyone else gets a not-found rather than a login prompt. Password protection gives you one shared secret you can put in a separate message from the link. Capture emails asks for an email address before the report loads, so you find out who actually opened it. Public means anyone holding the URL can read it, and search engines may index it unless you also mark the site hidden from search. The client opens the link in an ordinary browser: nothing to download, no account to create, no plugin, and the page renders exactly as you built it because it is your own HTML being served, not a converted preview of it.

Not for a public or password-protected page. They click the link, enter the password if there is one, and read it. Pagegoat issues a short-lived pass for that site so they are not asked again on every page load. An account is only required for a private site, because private means access is granted to specific people and there has to be an identity to grant it to. Reading and commenting are free in every case; the paid plan is what lets you publish, not what lets them read. That means you can invite as many reviewers as a piece of work needs without any of them being charged, and without buying seats for people who will look at one document once and never return.

Yes, and it attaches to the passage rather than floating beside the document. A reader selects text on the rendered page and leaves a note against that selection, the way commenting works in a shared document. The anchor stores the selected text plus a short run of characters either side, so when you upload a corrected version the comment can find its place again instead of collapsing to the top of the page. Threads can be resolved and reopened. You control who may do this per person: viewer can read only, commenter can read and comment, admin can also replace the file and change who has access. If you would rather collect no comments at all, commenting can be switched off for the site.

Only if you publish it publicly and leave it indexable. A private or password-protected site is never served to a crawler in the first place, and a public site can additionally be marked hidden from search, which makes Pagegoat serve a noindex instruction on that page so search engines are told not to list it. The important detail is that a public link is genuinely public: anyone who has the URL can open it, whether you sent it to them or it was forwarded. If the contents are confidential, the visibility setting is the control that matters, not the obscurity of the slug. Pick private or password before you send anything you would not want read by a stranger.

You replace the file and the link stays the same. Re-uploading writes a new version to the same slug, so the URL you already emailed keeps working and points at the current document. There is no v2 link to chase, and nobody is left reading last week's numbers because they bookmarked the first one. Existing comments re-anchor to their passages where the surrounding text still matches. Only the current version's bytes are stored, so revisions do not quietly consume your allowance. If a report is genuinely finished and you want it gone, deleting the site removes it and the link stops resolving.

Publishing starts at $2.99 a month on Starter, which includes 25 MB of total storage, enough for a large number of HTML reports, since a document that is mostly text and a stylesheet is measured in tens of kilobytes rather than megabytes. Pro is $5.99 and raises storage to 100 MB, lifts the ceiling on a single upload from 25 MB to 100 MB, and adds teammate seats. Storage is the only metered resource: sites, projects and the people you share with are unlimited on any paid plan, and there is no per-view or per-visitor charge. There is no free publishing tier: a free account can read, comment on and help manage work shared with it, but cannot put up its own.