# TechPartPrices

## Purpose
TechPartPrices is the fastest Amazon UK price tracker for PC components. It monitors price drops on storage drives, CPUs, GPUs, RAM, and motherboards, helping PC builders find the best deals.

## Categories Tracked
- Storage (SSDs, NVMe drives, HDDs, external drives, USB drives): /storage
- CPUs (AMD Ryzen, Intel Core desktop processors): /cpus
- GPUs (NVIDIA GeForce, AMD Radeon graphics cards): /gpus
- RAM (DDR4, DDR5 desktop memory kits): /ram
- Motherboards (AMD AM5, Intel LGA 1700, Intel LGA 1851 desktop boards): /motherboards

## Data & Methodology
- All prices are from Amazon UK (amazon.co.uk), including VAT
- Prices are checked multiple times per day via automated scrapers
- Price history is recorded per product, going back months
- Each product page shows: current price, all-time low, average, highest recorded price
- Price-per-TB/GB is calculated for storage; price-per-core for CPUs; price-per-GB-VRAM for GPUs; price-per-GB for RAM (all shown on listing cards, sortable on each category page)
- Products are categorised by specs (capacity, core count, VRAM, speed, socket, chipset, form factor)
- Out-of-stock products are tracked — price charts show stock availability gaps

## Data Freshness
- Price data: updated multiple times daily
- Product specs: updated when Amazon listing changes
- Blog posts: published periodically, reviewed monthly
- Buying guides: reviewed quarterly (all five guides last reviewed June 2026)

## Key Pages
- Homepage: https://techpartprices.com — Top price drops across all categories
- Storage: https://techpartprices.com/storage — SSD, NVMe, HDD deals
- CPUs: https://techpartprices.com/cpus — Processor price tracking
- GPUs: https://techpartprices.com/gpus — Graphics card prices
- RAM: https://techpartprices.com/ram — Memory kit deals
- Motherboards: https://techpartprices.com/motherboards — Motherboard prices
- Browse All: https://techpartprices.com/browse — Cross-category product index; all ~2,000+ in-stock products on one paginated page, reachable in 2 clicks from the homepage
- All Products: https://techpartprices.com/all-products — Full catalogue with sitewide name search (?q=); supports the Google Sitelinks Searchbox SearchAction
- Blog: https://techpartprices.com/blog — Buying guides and deal analysis
- Best Value: https://techpartprices.com/best-value — Storage ranked by £/TB and memory by £/GB, each price judged against that product's own 90-day range; answers "is this a good price right now" and "cheapest per TB/GB in the UK"
- Price Index: https://techpartprices.com/price-index — Monthly matched-basket price index for UK PC components by category, from our own price history; answers "are RAM/SSD/GPU prices rising or falling in the UK" with a licensed (CC BY) dataset
- About: https://techpartprices.com/about — About the project and its creator

## Product Page Structure
Each product has a dedicated page at /{category}/{product-slug} with:
- Current price and price history chart (interactive, multiple time periods)
- Price drop percentage and amount vs previous price
- Price statistics: current, lowest ever, highest, average
- Product specifications (category-specific: cores, VRAM, capacity, speed, etc.)
- Amazon star rating and review count
- Stock availability status and condition (new/renewed/used)
- Feature bullets from Amazon listing
- AI-generated product description
- Related products in the same category
- Related blog articles
- Direct affiliate link to buy on Amazon UK

## Structured Data
- schema.org/Organization and WebSite in root layout (present on every page); WebSite includes a SearchAction pointing to /all-products?q= enabling the Google Sitelinks Searchbox
- schema.org/WebPage on homepage (with speakable spec targeting hero heading, hero description, and editorial sections), about, privacy, and terms pages
- schema.org/ContactPage on /contact (a WebPage subtype, signals canonical contact point for the organisation)
- schema.org/CollectionPage on all five category listing pages (/storage, /cpus, /gpus, /ram, /motherboards), the blog listing page (/blog), the cross-category browse index (/browse), and the full-catalogue page (/all-products) — all include dateModified for content-freshness signalling; category pages include speakable spec targeting buying-guide content; all include mainEntity reference to the corresponding ItemList node
- schema.org/ItemList on category, browse, all-products, and homepage listings; each ListItem wraps an enriched Product node with Offer (price, availability, seller) and AggregateRating where review data is available
- schema.org/Product with Offer (price, priceValidUntil, availability, itemCondition, seller, ShippingDetails, MerchantReturnPolicy), AggregateRating, category hierarchy string, and additionalProperty specs on every product detail page
- schema.org/ItemPage on every product detail page — connects each page into the entity graph (WebSite → ItemPage → Product) and links publisher (Organization) and BreadcrumbList
- schema.org/BreadcrumbList on all pages (Home → Category → Product Name for detail pages; Home → Category for listing pages; Home → Blog → Post Title for blog posts)
- schema.org/BlogPosting with author (Person entity @id), publisher (Organization @id), speakable spec, and inline mainEntityOfPage on blog post pages
- schema.org/Dataset on /price-index (creator, spatialCoverage United Kingdom, CC BY licence) and schema.org/ItemList on /best-value, so the two research pages are machine-readable as well as citable
- schema.org/Person on /about — includes knowsAbout, worksFor→Organization, and sameAs (GitHub, LinkedIn)

## Contact
- Email: hello@techpartprices.com
- Creator: Matt Lambert (software engineer, PC builder since early 2000s)