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Reviews on your website, done properly
How to collect, embed and manage customer reviews, with numbers from the review data we import every day. Written by the team building the widget.
- Platforms
What is a reviews page? When a carousel stops being enough
A reviews page lists every review you have in one place. On 164 live carousels we measured, the median one loaded 11% of the business's reviews.
25 Oct 2026 - Data
Online review trends 2026: what one year of data shows, like for like
Online review trends 2026 from our own database: imports up 31%, reviews written down 18%, and +0.9% on the same 549 Google profiles. What actually changed.
24 Oct 2026 - Platforms
Shoper reviews widget (plus IdoSell and Sky-Shop): where the code goes
We scanned 1,175 sites calling our widget and rendered every Shoper, IdoSell and Sky-Shop store among them. Where the code sits, what breaks, and what to do with Allegro.
23 Oct 2026 - Review sources
Reviews widget not updating on dynamic pages: AJAX, SPAs, infinite scroll
We ran our live embed script through route changes, AJAX hooks, infinite scroll and hidden modals on 22 October 2026. Why widgets vanish or double, and the fix.
22 Oct 2026 - Data
Do reviews increase conversion? What we can and cannot prove
We unblocked the review widget on our own homepage and sign-ups rose 126% in four weeks. Why we still cannot credit the widget, and what a real test needs.
21 Oct 2026 - Industries
Do reviews help local SEO? What actually moves the map pack
Google confirms review count and rating feed local ranking. We checked 779 local profiles and 1,756 reviews: what is real, what is myth, and what most profiles miss.
20 Oct 2026 - Industries
Google Ads seller ratings: why most shops with reviews get no stars
Google now calls them store ratings. Of 77 shops we track with 100+ reviews in two years, only 6 had 100 from a source Google counts. The rules, and how to check.
19 Oct 2026 - Legal
Can you hide bad reviews? Where curation ends and deception begins
You can hide some reviews on your own site, but not because they are bad. Where the line runs, and what 12 weeks of reason-required hiding showed us.
18 Oct 2026 - Managing reviews
Review response templates for hotels, salons, restaurants and shops
Review response templates for hotels, salons, restaurants and online shops, built on 3,207 real one and two-star reviews sorted by what customers complained about.
17 Oct 2026 - Managing reviews
How to remove a fake Google review (and what one costs in stars)
One fake 1-star review would lower the shown rating on 72.8% of the 2,973 Google profiles we track. How to report it, appeal it, and what never to pay for.
16 Oct 2026 - Managing reviews
How to get more Google reviews: we tested 250 review links first
How to get more Google reviews: one link that opens the form, asked at the right moment. Plus what a test of 250 real review links showed on 15 October 2026.
15 Oct 2026 - Managing reviews
Review request email: what 78 of our own requests taught us
How to write a review request email that gets reviews, based on 78 requests we sent our own customers in 2026: timing, one link, no chasers, three templates.
14 Oct 2026 - Managing reviews
How to respond to negative reviews (6 templates, 264 real replies)
How to respond to negative reviews, based on 264 real owner replies to one and two-star Google reviews: what works, what backfires, and six templates to adapt.
13 Oct 2026 - Industries
Do review widgets slow down your website? We measured three
We put JustReview, Elfsight and Trustindex on the same test page on 12 October 2026. What they did to LCP, layout shift and blocking time, and the fixes.
12 Oct 2026 - Industries
Reviews page on your website: what to put on it (55 live pages measured)
We rendered 55 live reviews pages built with our widget. On 45 of 48 sites the server sent none of the reviews. What a reviews page needs around the list.
11 Oct 2026 - Industries
Where to put reviews on your website: data from 282 live homepages
We rendered 282 live homepages running our widget. The first review block sat a median of four screens down. Where reviews should go instead, widget by widget.
10 Oct 2026 - Industries
Reviews on product pages: where to put them (and what if there are none)
Half the Amazon listings in our data had five reviews or fewer. Where reviews go on a product page, and what to show on the many pages that have almost none.
9 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Tripadvisor reviews: ranking, badges and reuse rules
Tripadvisor ranks on recent reviews, yet 9 of 18 listings we import added 5% or less of their lifetime count in 2025. What that means for ranking, awards and quotes.
7 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Booking.com reviews: how the score is calculated and what you can reuse
We checked four properties on Booking.com: the score counts only the last 36 months, and over half the reviews we held for them were already archived there.
6 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Google Business Profile reviews: a complete guide for owners
Owners replied to 44.6% of 11,900 Google reviews we tracked, and one-star reviews got no more replies than five-star ones. Replies, removals and access.
5 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Is Reviews.io legit? What its Verified Buyer label tells you
We read the 1,534 newest reviews on 23 Reviews.io profiles. Verified Buyer reviews averaged 4.83 stars, the rest 3.60. What the labels mean, and what it costs.
4 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Trusted Shops reviews: certification, costs and data you get back
We checked all 12 Trusted Shops IDs ever connected to JustReview: 8 shops are gone from Trusted Shops, and live grades rest on under half of the reviews counted.
3 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Yell reviews for UK businesses: what they are worth in 2026
Yell reviews checked against Google for 14 UK firms that collect both: ratings agree within 0.1 stars at 10 of them, but Google brought 74 new reviews to Yell's 8.
2 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Capterra reviews: how the platform works for software vendors
Capterra reviews measured on all 1,133 reviews of one product: 18.5% were invited by Gartner with an incentive, and 15 positive ones have quietly vanished.
1 Oct 2026 - Platform guides
Booksy reviews: how to see, manage and reuse them
Booksy reviews measured on 30,010 of them from 30 profiles: most arrive within a day of the visit, and 46% of September 2026 reviews carried no text.
30 Sept 2026 - Platform guides
Is Sitejabber legit? What our own review imports show
We hold 156 Sitejabber reviews from six connected profiles. Every single one carries written text, 87.8% are five stars, and two accounts produced 98% of the volume.
29 Sept 2026 - Industries
Social proof on a pricing page: what belongs next to the price
We checked 25 SaaS pricing pages on 28 September 2026. Twelve show a logo wall, six show a customer quote, three show a review badge and none shows a rating in text.
28 Sept 2026 - Industries
Local business reviews widget: which sources actually matter
Measured 27 September 2026 across 161 local-service accounts: Yelp and Yell still collect, while Angi, HomeAdvisor and YellowPages have not delivered a review in a year.
27 Sept 2026 - Industries
Restaurant reviews widget: Google and Tripadvisor scores compared
Our 32 food and drink accounts average 4.45 stars on Google against 4.71 across every business we host, and 4.14 on Tripadvisor. What that does to your page.
26 Sept 2026 - Industries
Hotel reviews on your website: turning OTA scores into direct bookings
Only 52% of the 3,276 Booking.com reviews we hold are five stars, against 91% on TripAdvisor. Why the harshest source is the one that earns a direct booking.
25 Sept 2026 - Industries
Reviews for beauty salons: what to show next to the booking button
A salon profile in our database holds a median of 900 booking-platform reviews against 154 on Google. What that gap changes about the widget on your site.
23 Sept 2026 - Comparisons
White label reviews widget: what agencies actually need
Our production database has 296 accounts running two or more unrelated brands from a single login. Here is what white label really removes, and where that model breaks.
22 Sept 2026 - Data
Review velocity: how fast normal businesses collect reviews
Review velocity measured across 532 live Google profiles on 2026-09-21: the median business collects 12.5 reviews a year and has six empty months.
21 Sept 2026 - Data
Multilingual reviews on your website: which ones to show whom
Multilingual reviews on a website, measured 2026-09-20: 63.6% of review sets hold two or more languages, and the median second language has just 14 reviews.
20 Sept 2026 - Data
Reviews benchmark by industry: dentists, hotels, salons, e-commerce
Reviews benchmark by industry, measured 2026-09-19: median Google reviews are 104 for dentists, 99 for hotels, 87 for salons and 52 for online shops.
19 Sept 2026 - Data
Does a 5-star rating hurt conversion? What 1,735 Google profiles show
Does a 5-star rating hurt conversion? Measured 2026-09-18 on 1,735 Google profiles: the typical score is 4.9, and the first non-5-star review arrives at review 9.
18 Sept 2026 - Data
How many reviews does a business need? Data from 2,920 Google profiles
How many reviews does a business need? Measured on 2026-09-16 across 2,920 Google profiles: the median is 37, and a perfect 5.0 vanishes past 275 reviews.
16 Sept 2026 - Data
Online reviews statistics 2026: what 1,387,989 real reviews show
Online reviews statistics measured on our own corpus on 2026-09-15: 1,387,989 reviews, 3,746 businesses, 53 sources, and why most published review stats are artefacts.
15 Sept 2026 - Data
Yelp API shut down: what happens to reviews when a source dies
The Yelp API shut down in 2024 and the reviews stayed. Measured across 1,386,276 reviews: what survives a source closing, what stops, and what is gone for good.
14 Sept 2026 - Review sources
Multi Location Reviews Widget: How to Show Reviews Per Location
Our own database shows 30 accounts running multiple Google or Facebook profiles today. Here is the real plan limit, how the widget merges them, and where it does not.
13 Sept 2026 - Review sources
Why your review count on the widget does not match the platform
1,186 accounts today have reviews hidden by a plan limit alone, 730,049 in total. Three real mechanisms behind a mismatched review count, measured in our own database.
13 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to import old reviews from a CSV (and keep the dates)
Move reviews from a previous tool, a shop export or your own spreadsheet into JustReview with a CSV file, without losing the original dates, ratings or language.
11 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to aggregate reviews from multiple sources in one widget
883 accounts in our database pull reviews from two or more sources. The hard part is not the merge: Facebook only ever scores 1 or 5, Google uses the whole scale.
10 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to show Google Shopping seller ratings on your website
Every one of the 16,158 Google Shopping reviews in our database is a seller rating. Not one is a product review. That difference decides where they belong on your site.
9 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to show App Store and Google Play reviews on your website
We hold five App Store connections and one Google Play connection across our whole database. Here is what the reviews inside them actually look like.
8 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Product Hunt reviews to your website, not just upvotes
Product Hunt's official badge counts upvotes, not reviews, and a review badge does not exist. Here is what we measured and how to get the text onto your page.
6 Sept 2026 - Review sources
Trusted Shops reviews widget: how to add it (and the 365-day catch)
The Trusted Shops API only returns the last 365 days of reviews. We measured it live: exactly one year, day for day, on a shop with reviews back to 2020.
6 Sept 2026 - Review sources
Reviews.io widget: how to embed it, and why most connections go quiet
In our own data, 18 of 24 Reviews.io connections have not imported a single new review in over a year. Here is what that means before you connect one.
6 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add G2 reviews to your website (not just the badge)
G2's own badge is a 78,789-byte PNG with no rating and no words in it. Here is what we measured, and how to get the actual review text onto your page.
5 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Capterra reviews to your website (B2B software)
We hold 6,697 Capterra reviews across 7 accounts. They average 489 characters, and five of those seven businesses have no Google reviews at all.
4 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Yell reviews to your website (UK listings)
We hold 2,831 Yell reviews across 42 accounts. Not one of them is blank and 95.7% carry five stars, but only 6 arrived in the last 30 days.
3 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Tripadvisor reviews to your website (no API key)
Tripadvisor reviews on your own site: 12,799 of ours average 432 characters and not one is blank, but only 29 arrived last month. What that means for your page.
1 Sept 2026 - Review sources
How to add Airbnb reviews to your direct booking website
Airbnb reviews on your own site: 98.4% of ours sit at four or five stars and not one is blank. What that does to a booking page, and why the listing URL matters.
31 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to add Booking.com reviews to your hotel website
Booking.com reviews on your own site: 37% of them carry a complaint in the same body as the praise, and what that means for a direct booking page.
30 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to show Etsy reviews on your website
Etsy reviews on your website: the two import paths, what a full shop history costs, and why a quarter of Etsy reviews arrive with no text at all.
29 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to show eBay feedback on your website
How to show eBay feedback on your website: what the star ratings really mean, which entries eBay wrote itself, and how to lay the widget out around both.
28 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to put Booksy reviews on your website
How to put Booksy reviews on your website: connect the salon profile, expect short five-star entries with no photos, and lay the widget out around that.
26 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to add Facebook reviews to your website (they are recommendations)
How to add Facebook reviews to a website: connect the Page rather than your profile, and treat recommendations as a yes or no vote instead of a five-star rating.
25 Aug 2026 - Platforms
React reviews widget: the four ways it breaks in Next.js
We instrumented our own embed script inside React 18 and Next.js 14 on 24 August 2026. Exact numbers for the duplicate render, the silent zero, and the fix.
24 Aug 2026 - Platforms
How to add Google reviews to Divi without an extra plugin
We read 25 live Divi sites running our reviews widget on 23 August 2026: where the code has to go, the three ways it silently fails, and the exact snippet.
23 Aug 2026 - Data
Review sources comparison: which ones still work in 2026, measured
A review sources comparison built from 1,375,512 imported reviews and 4,834 live connections: which sources still deliver, and which quietly stopped.
22 Aug 2026 - Legal
Google reviews API: what you can and cannot build
Places API returns 5 reviews and forbids caching. Business Profile API needs profile ownership. Measured against 384,482 Google reviews we actually hold.
21 Aug 2026 - Legal
GDPR and your reviews widget: what data it actually processes
What a reviews widget really sends, stores and logs. Measured on our own widget in an isolated test: zero cookies on load, no third-party hosts, self-hosted fonts.
20 Aug 2026 - Legal
Review schema markup: when you get stars in Google (and when not)
Review schema only earns stars when ratings are real, sourced and visible on the page. Google's actual rule, plus what we do and do not mark up ourselves.
19 Aug 2026 - Platform guides
Sitejabber is now SmartCustomer: what the rebrand changes
Sitejabber renamed itself SmartCustomer and moved domain. What changed, what did not, and the four places on your own site that still point at the old name.
19 Aug 2026 - Legal
Buy Google reviews: what it actually costs when you get caught
Bought reviews arrive with three bills: the regulator's, the platform's and your own website's. Plus what copy-paste reviews look like inside 384,146 Google reviews.
18 Aug 2026 - Legal
FTC rules for customer reviews: what you can and cannot hide
What the 2024 FTC rule bans, what it deliberately allows, and what review suppression actually looks like measured across 1,376,535 stored reviews.
17 Aug 2026 - Legal
Can you use Amazon reviews on your own website?
Half of them, and our import log shows which half. 337,483 Amazon product reviews stopped arriving on 1 November 2024. Seller feedback still syncs today.
16 Aug 2026 - Legal
Is it legal to embed Google reviews on your website?
Yes, under three conditions. What Google's terms require, where the real risk sits, and the attribution rate measured across 383,820 Google reviews.
14 Aug 2026 - Platform guides
Google Reviews Search by Name: What Works
Google reviews search by name rarely finds the review you want: names repeat and 32.4% of reviews have no text. Rating and date filters work better.
13 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to get reviews on your website in two steps
How to get reviews on your website: find the reviews customers already left on Google, Facebook or a marketplace, then embed them where visitors decide.
12 Aug 2026 - Platform guides
Google Reviews by Me: Find Every Review You Wrote
Google reviews by me live in Maps, not Search. Open maps.google.com/contrib for every review you wrote, newest first, with edit and delete on each one.
12 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews HTML embed: what the snippet really does
There is no Google reviews HTML code to paste and no iframe that works. Here is the measured cost of the snippet that does work, request by request.
11 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Joomla Google reviews plugin: what the text filter deletes
You do not need a Joomla plugin to show Google reviews. You need the script tag to survive the save. Here is exactly what Joomla deletes, and what it keeps.
10 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews in PrestaShop: where the snippet goes, measured
We fingerprinted every domain calling our widget and found 16 PrestaShop shops. On five of their pages the script loaded, called our API and rendered nothing.
9 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews on GoDaddy: the HTML section, measured
GoDaddy runs your HTML section inside a sandboxed iframe. We measured what that does: a list widget grows to 827px, a floating badge gets stuck at 150px.
6 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews on Shopify: where the snippet goes (20 live stores)
Where the snippet goes in a Shopify theme, and what 19 Shopify accounts running a live reviews widget actually connect: 47% Google, 42% eBay.
4 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Webflow Google reviews integration: what the 940 px container does
How to put Google reviews on a Webflow site with an Embed element, and what breaks when you publish to a custom domain.
3 Aug 2026 - Platforms
Elementor Google reviews widget: what a hidden tab does to it
Three ways to add Google reviews to an Elementor page, and why the widget often renders in the editor but stays blank on the live site.
2 Aug 2026 - Review sources
How to put marketplace reviews on your website: Amazon, eBay, Allegro
Reviews you already earned on Amazon, eBay, Etsy or Allegro can go on your own site. What is possible per platform and what is not.
30 Jul 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews widget on Wix: how tall the HTML box has to be
Measured heights for a reviews widget inside a Wix HTML box: 827 px at 980 px wide, 932 px on mobile, and why a narrower box needs a taller one.
28 Jul 2026 - Comparisons
Best Google reviews widget in 2026: 7 tools, honestly compared
Best Google reviews widget in 2026? Featurable, Elfsight, Trustindex, EmbedSocial, Tagembed and JustReview compared on free limits and view meters.
26 Jul 2026 - Platforms
Google reviews widget on Squarespace (and why the editor looks empty)
How to embed Google reviews on Squarespace with Code Injection and a Code block, plus the four reasons the widget shows nothing at all.
26 Jul 2026 - Platforms
How to add a Google reviews widget to WordPress (3 ways, measured)
Three ways to put Google reviews on WordPress, what each costs in page weight and database queries, and why widgets fail to render.
26 Jul 2026