About maltasuper and maltacompare
Two sites, one project. maltasuper.com compares the prices Malta's supermarkets publish online. maltacompare.com compares everything else: electronics, home and DIY, beauty and perfume shops, the mobile, home internet and TV plans GO, Melita and Epic publish (checked about once a week), takeaway menus and delivery fees on Wolt and Bolt Food, and eCabs' taxi fares and waiting times. Both show the prices side by side, with a link back to each store, operator or restaurant.
Who runs maltasuper and maltacompare
Both sites are run by the same independent individual, not by a supermarket, shop, telecom operator, delivery platform or taxi company. It started as a personal project: in a time of high inflation, finding out where things cost less should be quick and free for everyone in Malta. maltacompare.com was added when the comparisons outgrew supermarkets, so that its name says what it does.
Nobody pays to be listed or ranked: results are ordered by price alone. Ads from Google AdSense cover the running costs; advertisers have no say in what we list or in what order. How the plan comparison works is on how we compare plans.
Our price bot
Our crawler names itself in its User-Agent and links to this page. It reads robots.txt and respects Crawl-delay, and waits at least three seconds between requests to any one site. Rather than one burst a night, it reads a little at a time through the day: each shop about twice a day, takeaway menus a few at a time, eCabs' fare quotes and waiting times once an hour. When a site answers that we are asking too often, it waits and slows down.
If you run one of these stores and want us to crawl differently, offer a data feed, or be left out, contact us and we will act on it promptly.
Photos
Product photos come from the shops' own websites. Where a store has no photo, we use one from Open Food Facts, the free food products database, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Hover over a photo to see where it comes from.
Contact
Email: [email protected]
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