The huxi test

Site says / world says. A traffic light for a shop's reviews.

You're on a brand's website. You click the light. It reads what the site says about its own reviews — a count, a star rating, or reviews carrying a label like "verified purchase" — across the page you're on and a handful of the site's own product pages. Then it looks the same brand up on Trustpilot, a platform the brand doesn't control, and shows you both columns.

Green — confirmed elsewhere. Independent reviews found, and they broadly match what the site shows.
Amber — doesn't match. Independent reviews found, but the two sets of numbers tell different stories.
Red — nothing to check. The site shows reviews, and we found none anywhere the brand doesn't control.
Grey — couldn't check. Our lookup failed. That is never shown as red.

It never says fake. It never accuses anyone. It shows two columns and a list of every page it read, so you can check the count yourself. You do the sum.

Run it on us first

huxi.global goes red. Six reviews on site, all labelled and verified, and no Trustpilot page yet. The light doesn't know whose logo is on it.

Download

the-huxi-test-v1_2_2.zip →

Chrome on a laptop, two minutes:

1. Unzip the download. Chrome reads the folder, not the zip.
2. In the address bar type chrome://extensions and press enter.
3. Top right: switch Developer mode on. It sounds alarming; it isn't. It just lets Chrome run an extension from a folder instead of from Google's store.
4. Click Load unpacked and choose the unzipped huxi-test folder.
5. Click the puzzle piece next to the address bar and pin "The huxi test".
6. Go to any shop. Click the light.

It isn't finished

This is a working first version, not a product. What it does, it does honestly; what it doesn't do yet:

• It checks one independent source, Trustpilot. Google Reviews and Feefo are next, and both need things we haven't built.
• A brand reviewed under a different domain from the one it sells on can wrongly show red. Every result carries a link to check Trustpilot by hand for that reason.
• It reads up to sixteen pages of a site per click. A very large shop may hold reviews on pages it didn't reach.
• Chrome only, installed by hand. No app store yet.

If you want to develop it further — a coder, a reviews platform, a brand that wants the same test pointed at itself — write to info@huxi.global. The code is in the zip. We'd rather build it with people than sell it to them.

Privacy

The huxi test reads the page you're on and other public pages of the same site, and opens Trustpilot's public page for that site in a background tab. It stores nothing, sends nothing anywhere, tracks nobody, and has no account. When you close the panel, it has forgotten you were there.

The law, in one line

Faking consumer reviews, or hiding how they were collected, is an offence in the UK under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. This tool makes no accusations; it shows what each side says.

huxi puts the mattress rules on its products. This is the same idea pointed at reviews.