We have identified a change that Walmart has made to their site that is impacting our collection of category data. The good news is that it is only affecting the category data, our keyword data is unaffected (90% of our data is keyword related data).
Dataset Impacted: Walmart.com
Data impacted: Category (Best Sellers)
Impacted Timeframe: Jan 14, 2024 - Jan 23, 2024
Resolution: Our crawl has been restored to account for the changes on the Walmart.com category pages
How does this impact my data?
This change will result in Best Seller Ranks, Share of Sales and Weighted BSRs dropping to zero for the impacted timeframe. The dashboards most impacted by the loss of these metrics will be Category Snapshot, Category Sales Share, and Best Seller Rank Tracker. Some other dashboards will have missing data for the impacted metrics, but complete data for all others.
This change will not affect categorization for already categorized items, so item counts and keyword related data for categories will still be consistent. The only exception is that new item categorizations are not processing, so seasonal items and best selling new releases may be missing from category designations
Recommended Workaround:
We recommend using the Brand and Item filters or using a date range outside of the impacted timeframe when possible.