Two editions, two sets of data
The US edition sits at the root of the site and uses US retailers, gyms and chains in US dollars. The Canada edition lives under /canada/ and uses Canadian retailers, gyms and chains in Canadian dollars. A page in one edition never borrows a number from the other.
No currency conversion
We do not convert dollars. A US price converted to Canadian dollars would still be a US price: different retailer, different pack, different tax rules. Each figure is shown in the currency of the page it was read from.
Menus really do differ
Chains publish separate nutrition documents for each country. For chains present in both editions, the item counts we read are different:
Item counts include sizes and variants, so they are not a count of unique products. The point is that the same brand is a different dataset on each side of the border.
Size of each edition
- US: 52 protein prices, 12 gyms, 2,856 menu items.
- Canada: 48 protein prices, 7 gyms, 2,717 menu items.
How the pairing works for search and readers
Where both editions have a matching page, such as the protein ranking or the gym hub, each page links to the other with hreflang annotations (en-US and en-CA) and the edition switch in the header. Pages with no counterpart, for example one gym that exists in only one country, link to the other edition’s home instead.
Same method, local sources
Both editions follow the same method and editorial policy: read the official local page, record the figure with its link and date, leave out what we cannot confirm.