E-commerce Insights


At ScrapeHero, we find eCommerce insights from hundreds of data points. Read our latest eCommerce data reports we have curated from scraping retail data from major players such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and more.

Number of Products sold on Amazon.com- February 2017

Number of Products sold on Amazon.com- February 2017

Amazon has a total of 362,160,574 products as on February 4th, 2017 That’s 5% less than January 2017. Amazon had 398 Million products on January 4, 2017. Top 10 Categories The Digital Music category is the largest, with nearly 65.6 Million products. The Digital Music category has surpassed Electronics by 14 million products compared to last […]

Number of Products sold on Amazon vs Walmart- January 2017

Number of Products sold on Amazon vs Walmart- January 2017

As of January 2017, Walmart has a total of 16,859,211 products on sale compared to Amazon.com’s 356,901,798 products. It’s clear that Amazon is still miles ahead of Walmart in the eCommerce space. Walmart has only 4.7% of the products that Amazon has to offer. Walmart vs Amazon (Products for sale) Here is a comparison of […]

How many products are sold on Amazon.com – January 2017 Report

How many products are sold on Amazon.com – January 2017 Report

Amazon.com has a total of 398,040,250 Products as on January 4, 2017. That is 8% more products than the previous month. Amazon had 368 Million products on December 1 2016. Top 10 categories Below is a bar chart of the Top 10 Categories with the most number of products on Amazon.com. The Electronics department is HUGE, […]

Top 10 US destinations New Year’s Eve Hotel Price spikes

Top 10 US destinations New Year’s Eve Hotel Price spikes

Ever thought about watching the ball drop in Times Square on New Year’s eve in New York City? Well you’re not alone – a lot of people are thinking the same way and unless you have a thousand dollars for a hotel, it will just stay a dream. We analyzed average hotel prices in the […]

Number of products sold on Walmart.com vs Amazon.com – December 2016

Number of products sold on Walmart.com vs Amazon.com – December 2016

Walmart.com has a total of 16,249,629 products for sale as of December 2016 vs Amazon.com’s 405,435,416 products. Walmart.com has 4% the number of products that Amazon.com has for sale Last year, Walmart Management made it clear that they were determined to increase their online sales after their disappointing earnings (here is our post about that) . They […]

Bestselling Toy Brands on Amazon UK – December 2016

Bestselling Toy Brands on Amazon UK – December 2016

After analyzing Amazon.com Toys & Games bestsellers, we gathered data from Amazon UK – Toys & Games, to find out which are the most popular Toy Brands in the United Kindom. We have laid all our findings down as a Tableau Story, embedded below. You can view it as full screen by clicking on the […]

Bestselling Toy Brands on Amazon.com – December 2016

Bestselling Toy Brands on Amazon.com – December 2016

We analyzed about 2000+ products listed under Bestsellers of the category “Toys & Games” and its first level sub-categories of Amazon.com. Below is a quick summary infographic of our findings on the Bestselling toy brands in Amazon.com as on December 14, 2016. Courtesy of Venngage Hasbro has the largest number of products listed in Toys & Games’ […]

How many products does Amazon.com sell – December 2016

How many products does Amazon.com sell – December 2016

Amazon sells about 368,876,590 products as of Dec 1, 2016 EDIT: January 2017 Update is available here The total number of products sold by Amazon is 368 million, but when you add up the product totals in various categories and subcategories the total ends up being 411,548,523 – almost 42.1 million more products than the […]

How many products does Amazon sell – August 2016

How many products does Amazon sell – August 2016

UPDATE: December 2016 Amazon has about 368,876,590 products as of Dec 1, 2016. Read Updated Report Amazon sells 391,337,440 products in the US Highlights 58,407,108 Books 91,774,413 in Electronics 37,983,555 products out of the 391 million are Prime shipping eligible products

Number of products sold on the Amazon “Made on Kickstarter” store

Number of products sold on the Amazon “Made on Kickstarter” store

Amazon launched a “Made on Kickstarter” storefront and it was covered widely on most tech mags like Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable etc. The storefront is available at https://www.amazon.com/b?node=13514636011 Count of products in Top categories We decide to take a look at how many products Amazon has on launch day. Here is the breakdown for the top […]

Amazon India trounces Flipkart First with 900K Prime products

Amazon India trounces Flipkart First with 900K Prime products

The big news of the day – “Amazon launched Amazon Prime in India“. How exciting ! We decided to go beyond the PR and hype machine and look at the hard cold facts and data on what it means to the India eCommerce scene. Last month we had written a blog comparing the major e-commerce […]

A Dash button for everything – Amazon has 163 dash buttons now

A Dash button for everything – Amazon has 163 dash buttons now

Amazon has ventured into some areas like the Dash buttons or the Echo which have a niche use. The Dash buttons let you replenish items from the Amazon store with the click of a button ! We decided to take a look at how many products you can order with their own exclusive Dash button […]

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