How We Compare Platforms, and What We Do Not Test

Every hub on this site starts as a research unit rather than a writing brief.

For the eight commercial sections we read the live search results first, so we know what the incumbents already cover before deciding what is worth adding, and we build a dossier per company or product: what it is, how it charges, what its own pages publish, what only third parties claim, and what could not be found at all.

Guide articles are researched as a series so the decision boundaries between them hold, and so the same figure does not get quoted two different ways in two places.

Numbers arrive with a source and a check date or they do not arrive.

Where sources disagree, we publish the disagreement instead of averaging it into a middle that nobody reported: the wedding category is full of figures that vary two-fold or more between studies that look equally authoritative.

If a company's own pages contradict each other, we say so and quote both. When nothing could be verified, the page says nothing was found, which is a finding and not a formatting gap. We do not publish commission rates, network names or cookie durations anywhere on the site, because those move quietly and a reader cannot act on them.

Our limits are worth stating plainly. We do not test products in a lab and we do not photograph, print, fit or wear anything ourselves. Where an independent hands-on test exists, we name the outlet and describe what it measured rather than borrowing its conclusion.

Review scores are always published with their count and their date, because a strong average on a dozen reviews is not evidence. State-regulated topics get sourced to official state material or left out, and wedding insurance is outside our scope by decision rather than by oversight.

We earn commission on some outbound links, and the page you are on says so above the point where you can click out.

That relationship never decides who appears: companies with no affiliate program at all are covered on the same terms wherever a reader needs them, and a commercial relationship has never softened a verdict, changed a table order or removed a documented complaint.

Our review methodology page states how entities are selected and what gets compared, and it is linked from every page in the catalog.