@livius But beware dodgy antenna vendors. I've seen real abominations coming from China, with imitation N connectors even! I remember a shipment of antennas, all of which measured very different when tested with a VNA.
I have seen good antennas coming from China, but they were not cheap.
Unless you know very well what you are doing, I would recommend you to stick to proven antenna providers. Personally I can recommend two in Germany: Round Solutions and Wimo.
A good hint to identify proper antennas is a good datasheet including a S11/Return loss/SWR graph.
And if you want to test the antennas yourself, Mini Radio Solutions sells a very affordable VNA (miniVNA Tiny) that really works.
And for anyone interested on learning about the subject I can recommend Joseph Carr's "Practical Antenna Handbook". Beware, antenna design is a complete career path by itself, unless you are deeply interested on the subject you better skim through some sections of the book. But it will help you gain some "instinct" to identify "by heart" what might work and what won't.
The ARRL antenna book is an interesting book as well.