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Pressable overages: how visits are counted and how to avoid surprise charges
Pressable never switches a site off for traffic. It bills overages automatically instead, so the job is knowing your numbers before the invoice does.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- A visit = one unique visitor per day (UTC); known bots are excluded.
- Overage: $1.20 per 1,000 visits and $1.00 per GB of storage, charged automatically.
- Add-ons are cheaper for regular overages: $8 per 10,000 visits, $0.50/GB/month.
- You get a banner at 80% of a limit and an email when overages reach $10.
- The Traffic Metrics page shows human vs crawler traffic; on one of my sites, 82.2% was human.
Reading the Usage page
Usage shows storage, visits and sites against your plan, days left in the billing cycle, a trend chart and a month-by-month table. My account showed about 10.6GB of 50GB storage, 1,385 of 150,000 visits and 7 of 10 sites: a plan sized for growth that never came, which is part of why I'm downsizing.
How Pressable counts visits and storage
- Visits: hashed IP and user agent with a daily salt, no cookies; 10 pages by one person in a day = 1 visit. An opt-in "Pressable Insights" method counts server page requests and usually reports more.
- Storage: uploads, themes, plugins, cache and logs count; WordPress core, Pressable-managed plugins and the database don't. It's averaged over the billing cycle.
- Monthly plans are measured billing date to billing date; annual plans by calendar month.
Traffic Metrics: humans, crawlers and errors
Per-site Metrics → Traffic breaks down requests over time, PHP requests per second, unique visitors and page views, crawler vs human traffic, devices, browsers, countries, rate-limit reasons and HTTP status codes. Spikes in PHP requests that don't match visitors usually mean bots hitting uncached URLs; an edge rule fixes that.
Overage vs upgrade: the math
Signature 1 includes 30,000 visits for $25/month. At 40,000 visits you pay $25 + $12 = $37, still cheaper than Signature 2 ($45). At 60,000 visits it's $25 + $36 = $61, and Signature 2 is cheaper. Our Pressable cost calculator does this for any traffic level.
FAQ
Does Pressable take my site offline if I exceed visits?
No. It bills overages automatically.
Do bots count as visits on Pressable?
Known bots are excluded with the default counting method.
SOURCES
Prices and limits change. We note the date we checked each one; confirm on the provider's site before you buy.