Requirements
In this article you'll learn what requirements your shop has to meet to use the product comparison widget, and what you can do to optimize the results.
Platform
The product comparison tool is platform independent, which means it can be installed on any webshop, website or e-commerce platform.
As long as you can add a script and you can add HTML elements on a page (which are very basic HTML modifications) you can add the widget.
Page structure
The crawler normally only indexes pages that indicate that they are product pages via a meta tag or JSON-LD. If this is not the case, and it is not possible to adjust this, please contact us to discuss possible alternatives.
Unique URL's
A product page should be reachable on a single unique URL, without having to use request variables. If this is not the case, and it is not possible to change this behaviour, please contact us to discuss possible alternatives.
Examples of product URLs that DO meet this requirement:
- https://www.webshop.nl/products/my-product
- https://www.webshop.nl/product1234
- https://www.webshop.nl/products/1/index.html
Examples of product URLs that DON'T meet this requirement:
- https://www.webshop.nl/producten?product=mijn-product
- https://www.webshop.nl/index.php?article=123
- https://www.webshop.nl/products#123
Javascript rendered product specifications
If (parts of) your product pages are rendered using Javascript you will need a Professional payment plan or higher. This is usually the case with React based websites that do not use Server Side Rendering (SSR) or when sites load product specifications with an AJAX call.
The reason you need a higher plan, is that our server will need to render your page to be able to see the product specifications, which requires extra computing power and time to properly index your products.