Good examples of interactive product comparison tables?

bernard

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Lets say you have a spreadsheet with data about japanese chefs knives and we want to share this with the reader of a roundup review, how would we best show this to people? In this case, we might have 25 knives with 10-15 columns of data. Considering that most are on mobile and what would people like to do with it?

I've used Ninja Tables in the past, but I'm not sure how useful a standard table with data actually is. Then there WP Data Tables that popped up in Google Ads. It has a lot of filterable and interactive use, which seems interesting, but does seem more oriented to actual data use.

The point here is to make it actually engaging and also to have that info to show Google we're doing our own research. Most people will click out above the fold with the recommended, some will read all the reviews and some will make it to the end and want to filter for that particular japanese knife.

Any suggestions?
 
Might be a little technical for what you're looking for but this shits fire.
It does mobile rather well to. Also not really an example, but its basically a bunch of components for doing the stuff you want.
https://tabulator.info/
 
I'm using the free version of Tablepress with some custom CSS. It took me a bit of time, since I had no clue about CSS, but I'm quite satisfied with the results. The result is similar to...

https://www.security.org/home-security-systems/best/#comparison-of-the-best-home-security-systems

Or are you more searching for a comparison table like this one...

https://sellcoursesonline.com/online-course-platform-comparison

Both look good, what is the second one, is that also Tablepress?
 
The first one can be achieved with the Tablepress + custom CSS. In Tablepress it's possible to import CSV files.

Here a good starting point on how to style a Tablerpress table. There are many videos on YT about styling Tablepress tables. Here is the exmaple I used.



The second table I assume is a WordPress plugin. However, I prefer to use Tablepress + custom CSS, since it's more lightweight and loads fast.
 
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