Delivery Time Benchmark — Dutch Webshops

Reads the promised delivery time shown on a product page and normalizes it into a comparable shipping estimate, so you can benchmark logistics claims across independent Dutch electronics webshops. Currently supports Alternate.nl and Azerty.nl.

When should an AI agent use this?

• "Which of these two webshops promises faster shipping for this laptop?"
• "Does this product page say it ships today, or is it on backorder?"
• "Compare the delivery promise on Alternate.nl versus Azerty.nl for these product URLs."
• "Is this product currently in stock, and how fast does the shop claim it ships?"
• "Track how a shop's stated delivery time for this product changes over the coming weeks."

What this Actor does

• Fetches a list of product page URLs you supply, one or more per supported shop.
• Extracts the product name and the shop's own delivery/stock text — the literal wording as shown on the page, kept verbatim in the output.
• Normalizes that text into a deliveryPromiseType (e.g. ships today, ships next business day, a days range, or backorder/unavailable) plus a shipMinDays/shipMaxDays range, so results from different shops with different wording become directly comparable.
• Does not measure actual, real-world delivery performance — only the promise stated on the page at the time of the check. See Legal below.

Input

Field	Type	Description
productUrls	array of strings	Product page URLs to check (not category/listing pages). Mix shops freely to benchmark the same product category across them.
maxConcurrency	integer	How many pages to fetch in parallel. Default 3 — kept low deliberately (see Legal).

Output

One dataset item per successfully checked product page:

{
  "shop": "alternate.nl",
  "productUrl": "https://www.alternate.nl/HP/EliteBook-8-G2i-DW7K2ET-ABH-14-inch-Copilotplus-laptop/html/product/1950510",
  "productName": "HP EliteBook 8 G2i (DW7K2ET#ABH) 14\" Copilot+ laptop (Zilver | Core Ultra 7 355 | Intel Graphics | 32 GB | 512 GB SSD)",
  "deliveryTextRaw": "Op voorraad voor 22:00 uur besteld, vandaag verzonden",
  "deliveryPromiseType": "ships_same_day",
  "shipMinDays": 0,
  "shipMaxDays": 0,
  "checkedAt": "2026-08-05T14:21:20.501Z"
}

deliveryPromiseType is one of: ships_same_day, ships_next_business_day, ships_in_days_range, backorder_or_unavailable, unknown (text present but not recognized — deliveryTextRaw is always kept so you can read the shop's exact wording yourself).

Use cases

• Dropshippers and marketplace sellers benchmarking their own delivery promise against competing webshops for the same product category.
• Price/logistics comparison sites adding a delivery-speed data point alongside price.
• E-commerce consultants advising clients on their logistics competitiveness versus peers.
• Tracking a shop's own stated delivery time over a season (e.g. around Black Friday/Christmas) by scheduling repeated runs on the same product URLs.

Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model.

• Actor Start: $0.00005 (Apify default)
• Delivery time checked: $0.003 per successfully checked product page

Legal

• Data source: the public product pages of Alternate.nl and Azerty.nl — no login required, no personal data involved, purely product/stock/delivery text.
• Both shops' robots.txt allow general-purpose crawlers on product pages at the time of building this Actor (2026-08-05); Azerty.nl explicitly asks crawlers to keep request volume low and to identify themselves, which this Actor does via its User-Agent and a low default maxConcurrency.
• This Actor reports the promised delivery time as stated on the page at the moment of the check — it does not verify whether a shop actually delivers within that window. Don't use a single result as a guarantee of real-world delivery performance.
• Website structures change. If a shop redesigns its product page, extraction may silently return deliveryTextRaw: null for that shop until the Actor is updated — always sanity-check results against a shop's page directly if something looks off.

FAQ

Q: Why only two shops? A: Both are verified working end-to-end (real product pages, real delivery-time text, checked live). More independent Dutch shops can be added — this uses a lightweight per-shop adapter, so new shops are a small addition rather than a rewrite. Suggestions for shops to add next are welcome.

Q: Does this tell me when my order will actually arrive? A: No — it reports what the shop's product page claims at the time of the check ("beloofde levertijd"). Actual delivery performance would require a separate, real-order-based measurement.

Q: Can I check a category/listing page instead of individual products? A: Not in this version — supply the specific product page URLs you want to compare.

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Zoekwoorden: levertijd vergelijken, bezorgtijd webshop, levertijdvergelijking, verzendtijd concurrent, levertijd benchmark elektronica.

Keywords

netherlands, e-commerce, delivery-time, shipping, logistics, benchmark, alternate.nl, azerty.nl, webshop-monitoring, dropshipping

Changelog

0.1.0

• Initial release: supports Alternate.nl and Azerty.nl product pages.