Identity & Authority: Colruyt – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Colruyt

(https://colruyt.be) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 29, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
10 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
67% Reputation

A significant technical authority gap exists due to the total absence of JSON-LD schema across the audited pages. Furthermore, the heading hierarchy is technically broken, with the homepage and products page lacking an H1 tag. While the business identity is legally verifiable via the KBO number, the technical implementation does not reflect the scale of the brand.

The primary claim of ‘lowest prices’ is a high-performance assertion that is partially substantiated by specific BBQ-package discounts and tiered pricing. However, the site does not provide evidence of its price-tracking algorithm or how it handles price matches in real-time. The ‘Green-score’ claim for eco-shopping is well-integrated with the ‘Xtra’ app functionality, moving it from a vague claim to a delivered feature.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage — no schema detected (entity gap)
/nl/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/nl/producten/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/nl/acties/toppromo/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
0Review mentions (all pages)
4External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 0 1
/nl/ 0 1
/nl/producten/ 0 1
/nl/acties/toppromo/ 0 1