Disclosure
We review software built by the people who publish this site. Everything below exists so that you can discount us correctly rather than have to guess by how much.
The conflict
review.com.im is published by the team behind labs.llc, and the properties reviewed here are built and operated by that same team. This is not an arm’s-length relationship, a sponsorship, or an affiliate arrangement. It is the same people. No amount of editorial care changes that, and we are not going to pretend it does.
We have made three choices in response, and you can hold us to all three.
- Every figure carries the moment it was taken. Each essay ends with a section listing what was fetched, how large the response was, how long it took, and the UTC time. Where a figure could not be measured, the essay says so in the same list rather than leaving the gap for you to find.
- Every essay names at least one thing the property gets wrong. Not a stylistic quibble — a specific, checkable defect, set in its own block so it cannot be skimmed past. A review of your own software with nothing wrong in it is an advertisement, and should be read as one.
- No scores anywhere. We publish no stars, no grades and no out-of-ten, and no page of this site emits rating markup of any kind — no review or aggregate-score structured data, now or later. Machine-readable review data published by the reviewed party about itself is precisely the thing search engines have told publishers not to do. Our verdicts are sentences. Sentences can be argued with.
How an essay here is made
The reviewer opens the live property in a browser, fetches the page and the files it loads with ordinary public requests, reads the numbers the page prints, and then checks those numbers against the data behind them — a count in a shipped file, a total returned by the property’s own relay, the size of a response. Requests are paced a few seconds apart and are read-only: no forms are submitted, no accounts are created, and nothing is written to any reviewed property.
Illustrations are screenshots the reviewer took of the live property, at a stated viewport, on a stated date, captioned with what they show. There are no stock photographs on this site, no placeholder images, and no charts drawn from numbers we did not measure. Analytics and third-party trackers are blocked at the network layer while screenshots are taken, so nothing in a published capture is a live measurement hit.
The journal itself now runs one script, and it is worth naming rather than leaving to be discovered: a
Google Analytics 4 tag, property G-WWF8X0NK08, which is this site’s own and is never any
other property’s. It exists to answer a single question — whether an essay was read — and it
answers it with a page view, an approximate location, a device class and a referring address, written to
cookies it sets in your browser. It is given no name, this site has no field to type one into, and every essay
is static HTML that reads perfectly well with the tag refused.
Health, and what these essays are not
These are reviews of software. Nothing on this site is medical advice, and nothing on it diagnoses, treats, triages or assesses anybody’s health. Where a reviewed tool displays medical images, we say that it displays them: it renders, windows and exports images, and it does not interpret them, detect anything in them, or produce a report. Where a reviewed tool lists clinicians or hospitals, we say that it lists them: it is a directory, not a recommendation, and a star rating quoted in an essay is the publishing agency’s rating rather than ours. For anything concerning your own health, talk to a clinician who can examine you.
Money
Nobody pays for coverage here, because there is nobody to pay: the only properties reviewed are the
publisher’s own. There is no advertising on this site, no affiliate link, no sponsored placement and no
commercial relationship with any third party mentioned in an essay. Links to labs.llc in the body of an essay
point at the exact page being discussed. The publisher line in the footer of every page is templated rather
than editorial, and is marked nofollow to say so.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, it is wrong and we will change it and say that we did. Send the disagreement and, if you have one, your own measurement and the time you took it, to labs@labs.llc. That is the only address this site keeps; any other address claiming to be us is not.
Essays are dated and are not silently edited. A figure measured on a given day is a figure from that day: live properties change, and an essay here is a reading at a timestamp rather than a standing claim about the present.