What is FastPages?
FastPages is a web-based landing page builder hosted in the cloud. It provides you with an online editor to design your landing page without the need for any programming experience. In this FastPages review, I take a closer look at the functionalities, support, pricing, and drawbacks.
What is a landing page?
A landing page is a page where a visitor arrives after clicking an ad. For example a Facebook display or Google text ad. This page provides visitors with extra information about your product or service and has most of the time the goal to collect the visitors’ contact information. More information about how to create a perfect landing page you can find in this post.
Functionalities
How complete is FastPages?
When setting up a new project or campaign you can select a pre-made template or start with a blank page. For this review, we are choosing an existing sign-up course template. After selecting a template the online editor will open. The editor gives you the following features:
1) Edit the design of your section. You can change the background with an image or video, modify the padding, and change the cover color. But also add a parallax effect to your background image.
2) Edit the elements of a section. The builder lets you rearrange every aspect of a section. This can be text, buttons, images, videos, forms etcetera.
3) Add sections to your landing page. You can choose between templates or blank sections.
4) Add different elements to your section. You can add text, an image, a button, a spacer, different icons, icons with text, a countdown, a video (also from YouTube or Vimeo), a form, embed code, a quiz, a menu, or a payment option (check out).
5) The text editor comes with basic style options like size, heading type, color, shadow, hyperlink, and some more. You can change the font in the appearance of your project.
6) For changing the button design it’s possible to choose between the following options: alignment, border type, color, size, and width. The action of the button can either be a hyperlink, a certain page, an anchor link, or a popup.
Some more detail functionalities that can be useful to know are:
1) FastPages is automatically creating revisions so you can restore earlier versions of your landing page.
2) The builder has an option to create multiple pages. This is useful for making a thank you page or even an about us page.
3) You can rearrange and duplicate the different sections.
4) The main appearance of your landing page can be adjusted. This includes the fonts of your headings and paragraphs and the general color.
5) Every page has the option to put in some extra SEO information. Set up a title, put in keywords, fill in a description, and add an icon and OG-image.
6) It is possible to inject your own code inside the head or body of your landing page. This can be useful for Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or external chat functionality.
7) It’s possible to preview your landing page on a mobile, tablet, desktop, or laptop to make sure it’s suitable for every device.
8) When publishing a page you have the option to add your custom domain. After adding your custom domain it’s free to add SSL for a secure connection.
Support
On the bottom right of the landing page builder, you have the option to chat with the FastPages support. For basic questions, you can search their help center for a solution. Support is very helpful and most of the time react within a day.
Promises
FastPages promises multiple integrations are possible in just a few clicks. For payment options, you can connect your Stripe-account. The form you can connect with Moosend, Zapier, Activecampaign, or MailChimp. It is also possible to collect and save the contact information in your project database.
Yes, FastPages integrates with important tools in just a few clicks, but there are still plenty enough tools missing.
FastPages is also promising their builder is lightning-fast. I tested the builder and indeed, editing is super fast, you don’t have any loading times.
FastPages says it’s easy to publish a finished landing page. Publishing the landing page I build just took seconds, but connecting your domain always takes some extra knowledge. Because their support was here to help me, I think they keep their promise.
FastPages is promising fast loading times. On their website, they showing test results of a Pingdom speed test. The result shows us a score of B87 out of 100 and 246ms loading time.
I tested the landing page I created. The loading time was 1.4 seconds and the grade was B86. I tested another page to be sure. This time the loading time was 628ms and the grade was B86.
The drawbacks of FastPages
FastPages is a fast landing page builder that is very easy to learn. But what drawbacks does it has?
First, the tool is quite new (2019) so they have fewer functionalities compared to the competition.
Second, the same reason as the first. New functionalities or big changes sometimes come with bugs. Most of the time these bugs are fixed quite fast, but still, it can be annoying when running a campaign.
FastPages is missing a mailing system like Clickfunnels has.
FastPages Pricing
Because FastPages want to raise money and keep developing a lot more functionalities in 2020. They are offering a lifetime deal which gives you access to the software for the rest of your life for a one-time fee. When the lifetime deal finishes, they will go back to a monthly subscription system. The lifetime deals include:
- Publish unlimited pages.
- Publish unlimited quizzes.
- Publish unlimited checkouts
- Includes funnel analytics (coming soon)
- 100k visitors/month
- Connect 15 domain names
- Including SSL certificates
- All templates & widgets included
You can also choose to upgrade the lifetime deal with 500k pageviews and 50 domain names for $497,- or unlimited all for $997,-.
Who is FastPages Best Suited For?
FastPages is perfect for everyone who is advertising online. Especially when you are just starting or have a low budget the lifetime deal is an offer perfect for you.
When you need more than just a landing page builder. And don’t want to use tools like ActiveCampaign or Mailchimp. FastPages is probably not the tool for you. But you never know what the future brings.
FastPages has a Trello board where users can insert their wishes. Together with other users, you vote which item is developed first.
FastPages Review Conclusion
If you don’t have any programming experience, and you are running ads online, FastPages can come in very handy.
With FastPages you are capable of building a decent landing page. And after all, that will helps you get higher conversion rates.
FastPages is easy-to-use and loading times are as fast as they are promising. The styling options are somewhat limited. But there are enough options to give it a personal touch and their support team is very helpful.
Their lifetime deal is a very good opportunity to get cheap access. Instead of paying a monthly high subscription fee, like ClickFunnels.
So for those with a lower budget or are simply in need of a landing page builder, FastPages might be the tool for you.
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