A new storefront can look identical while its machine-readable product details change. Use this workflow to separate catalog metadata quality, price extraction, international SEO, accessibility and competitor price monitoring rather than trying to use one tool for all six jobs.
Start with free, browser-only checks where possible. The optional Apify Actors linked below handle specific public-data tasks and may charge when you run them. There is no customer account access, actual stock verification, automated SEO ranking improvement, or guaranteed sales uplift.
Review representative product templates for declared Product identity, name, SKU, price, currency, published availability and image references. Check the same URLs after theme or platform migration; flag changed or missing fields for investigation.
A declared Offer is not proof that the price matches checkout or stock exists in a warehouse.
Try the free browser-only Product JSON-LD checker
Open batch Product Schema Checker ↗Use the price extractor when the actual job is to capture a structured CSV or JSON snapshot. Reconcile missing identifiers and blank offers in a spreadsheet rather than treating an empty value as an out-of-stock signal.
This is a point-in-time data extraction, not recurring historical price monitoring.
Compare price extraction with a tracking workflow
Open Product Price & Stock Extractor ↗Inspect each language or regional URL's static HTML alternates, checking for duplicate language labels, malformed locale formats, missing URLs and unintentional differences between pre- and postlaunch templates.
A local markup check does not validate reciprocal hreflang across the entire site or confirm search indexing.
Try the free browser-only hreflang checker
Open Hreflang Tag Checker ↗Review product, collection, landing and editorial templates for missing or repeated main headings. Export findings, then validate the most consequential templates manually before sign-off.
One H1 does not by itself make a page rank higher; the tool does not inspect rendered client-side frameworks.
Open H1 Heading Checker ↗Inspect static HTML for images without alt attributes or images with intentionally or unintentionally empty descriptions. Prioritize critical product images for human review rather than replacing every empty alt automatically.
Decorative images may appropriately have an empty alt attribute. A field check is not a complete WCAG audit.
Open Image Alt Text Checker ↗Once the new catalog is stable, compare your reference price with a competitor's declared public price on the first run. Reuse the same monitor ID for later checks and review price or availability-label differences.
Requires supported static product markup. No checkout confirmation, hidden stock validation or automatic email alerts.
Test page compatibility locally before paying
Open Competitor Price Tracker ↗Start with the same fixed set of public product pages before and after migration. You can copy a simple input shape for an Actor that supports a urls array:
{
"urls": [
"https://your-public-store.example/products/product-a",
"https://your-public-store.example/products/product-b"
]
}
The URLs above are placeholders, not real endpoints. Replace them with actual public HTTPS product pages you are authorized to inspect. The exact Actor input schema may support additional controls; use the Actor's current Input tab as the source of truth. To avoid a paid run while learning the workflow, try ten verified synthetic website QA samples.
Cost control: Reading this guide and using its browser-only checkers does not run an Actor. An Apify execution may incur run-start, successful-event and/or platform usage fees. Read each live Pricing tab, then start with one or two pages only if you accept the charges.
| Checkpoint | Minimum evidence | When to recheck |
|---|---|---|
| Product structured data | Before/after sampled Product and Offer field snapshots | Template or feed changes |
| Price and SKU data | CSV/JSON export with noted omissions or currency mismatches | Catalog import, SKU changes |
| Hreflang | Public HTML alternate mappings reviewed against actual locales | International redirects or URL migration |
| H1 and image alt | Representative template findings signed off by content and accessibility owners | Theme, design, content changes |
| Competitor prices | Baseline monitor ID and consistent reference currency | Repeated supported public-price checks |
For more specialized tasks, see the eight-job tool selector, published Apify input examples or all publicly listed PAL Actors. Avoid running tools on sites or data you are not authorized to inspect.