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.

CHART: Count of Products in Amazon.com for Top 10 categories – May 2016

CHART: Count of Products in Amazon.com for Top 10 categories – May 2016

The chart and tables below show the number of products in the Top 10 categories sold by Amazon.com. The previous data can be found here. There has been approximately an increase of 100,000 products since last year and a decrease of 100,000 products since last month. Electronics          118,328,809 Cell Phones & Accessories            79,174,534 Home & […]

Books sold by language on Amazon

Books sold by language on Amazon

We decided to have a look at Amazon.com books and see if it discriminates (ok maybe that is a harsh word) by language.   They, of course, don’t write these books – they just sell them. They are US headquartered and it is almost obvious that a majority of their books are probably written in […]

Amazon.com statistics February 2016

Amazon.com statistics February 2016

Here are some stats from Amazon.com Total Products sold on Amazon.com = 473,578,572 35,158,862 products are Prime Eligible 31,197,636 items Ship for Free by Amazon 21,317,553 items are Amazon Global shipping Eligible 9,690 items are Prime Pantry items 39,944,324 items are Used 14,723,626 items have a 4 Stars & Up review rating  

Amazon Total products sold January 2016

Amazon Total products sold January 2016

The number of products sold by Amazon has increased slightly from October and as of now the count stands at 489.5 million products. This is a slight increase from the 467 million products sold in October almost back to the 485 million products in July.

Gift Cards sold on Amazon – by the numbers – a whole lot of card data

Gift Cards sold on Amazon – by the numbers – a whole lot of card data

It is that time of the year again as you look at your holiday gift list and wonder what you buy for some of the people on your list. An ugly holiday sweater maybe? Maybe not. If you have walked miles and miles through malls and specialty gift stores and are about to give up, […]

Amazon Handmade vs Etsy

Amazon Handmade vs Etsy

Nicole Leinbach-Reyhle at Forbes recently wrote an article comparing Etsy and Amazon in the “handmade” category. It explored the foray of Amazon into this category where Etsy has been the dominant player. When Amazon tries to enter a space, everyone sits up and takes notice. At ScrapeHero, we decide to look at this comparison through […]

How many Wayfair products are being sold on Amazon.com

How many Wayfair products are being sold on Amazon.com

We recently looked at the hot Boston based eCommerce retailer Wayfair and how many products it sells through Walmart.com. It appears that the Wayfair has a broader sales relationship strategy in play and also use Amazon.com to sell their products. Wayfair sells 277,391 products on Amazon.com A similar number of products to Walmart. Looks like […]

Wayfair.com products being sold on Walmart.com

Wayfair.com products being sold on Walmart.com

Walmart.com has some major help in filling up its product catalog especially in the home furniture area. Wayfair.com (Wayfair Inc is a U.S.-based e-commerce company that sells furniture. Formerly known as CSN Stores, the company was founded in 2002, and now sells many other home furnishings, luggage, toys, and pet items.[1] Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts) […]

Amazon Pantry – what’s in your pantry?

Amazon Pantry – what’s in your pantry?

Amazon Pantry seems to be getting very popular. As of the time of writing this post, Amazon Pantry sells 10,314 products – things like Tissues, Cotton Swabs, Paper Towels, Applesauce, Pet food etc.     Here are some interesting nuggets based on the data Total Amazon Pantry Products – 10,314 Health and Personal Care has […]

How many products does Amazon Sell – October 2015

How many products does Amazon Sell – October 2015

The number of products sold by Amazon has dipped slightly from the count in July and as of now the count stands at 467 million products. This is a decrease from the 485 million products in July by about 18 million products but still much higher from our numbers in March which stood at 323 […]

How many products does Jet.com sell

How many products does Jet.com sell

The newest entrant in the eCommerce market is Jet.com. It has made it very clear that it is going after Amazon. The question is how many products does it sell to even be a factor in taking on Amazon. Back in July, CNN Money reported that Jet.com intends to sell 10 million products to start. […]

Number of products sold by Amazon.com – July 2015 – huge increase of 162 million products in 4 months

Number of products sold by Amazon.com – July 2015 – huge increase of 162 million products in 4 months

UPDATE: As of December 1 2016 – Amazon Sells 368,876,590 items. Check the detailed post here How many products does Amazon.com sell – December 2016 The number of products sold by Amazon today is 485,434,647. This is a huge jump from the number in our last post from March. The increase from March 31 to July 31 […]

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