Forcing the user to subscribe to push notifications is probably not a good choice for most websites. However there are some specific situations where it makes sense to do that.
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How to find the pages that generate more subscriptions to web push notifications
Recently a customer has asked:
I would like to track which are the best pages of my site to get subscriptions.
Here’s a simple solution using Pushpad Pro and the Javascript SDK:
How to send a web notification at a specific time
You can use the Push API to send timely notifications from your website (the notifications are delivered even when the user is not on your website). If you use Pushpad, a service for web push, it is very simple to set the time when the notification must be delivered. The following example shows how to create a button to create a reminder.
Pushpad: monitor CTR and other metrics for web push notifications
As you may already know, you can use Pushpad to collect metrics about the delivery of web push notifications. We have recently updated the docs with more detailed information, so you can check them out.
Today we are also happy to announce that a new metric is displayed in the dashboard: the Click-through rate (CTR).
Unique notifications in a period of time (prevent duplicated notifications)
Sometimes an event can be triggered very frequently. However you want to send a notification to the user only once in a period of time: for example you may want to notify the event with at most one notification every hour (or day, etc.).
Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey with Pushpad and Google Docs
If your website uses Pushpad for web push notifications is very easy to create a NPS survey with a high rate of responses.
Welcome notifications with Pushpad
Do you want to send a welcome message when a user subscribes to your web push notifications? Here’s how to create welcome notifications using Pushpad Pro.
Create welcome series with web push notifications
You can use web push notifications to create welcome series for the new users that sign up to your application. Let’s see how to create a welcome series using Pushpad.
Migrate to Pushpad from another service
If you currently use a service different from Pushpad and you want to migrate your existing web push subscribers to Pushpad you can follow these steps:
Update the Pushpad service worker to the latest version
In the last months we have rolled out new notification features and other performance improvements.
If you use Pushpad Pro, in order to receive the update, you should make a small change to your service worker.