Overview
The gather completeness dashboard in CommerceIQ’s Digital Shelf Optimization (DSO) product is designed to provide transparency into how much of your product data is being successfully gathered from retailer websites. Since retailer websites are dynamic and frequently change, it is important to understand both the strengths and limitations of data collection. This dashboard gives you the visibility you need to trust and validate the data powering your digital shelf insights.
Why crawling retailer websites is challenging
Gathering data from retailer sites is inherently complex:
Dynamic content: Retailer websites constantly change product detail pages, layouts, and content rendering. Even small updates can temporarily disrupt crawlers.
Personalization and regionalization: Product detail pages may look different depending on location, user session, or device type, making it harder to consistently capture the same content.
Load and access restrictions: Retailers may implement throttling, blocking, or other technical controls to prevent frequent crawls, leading to occasional gaps in completeness.
Evolving formats: Information like pricing, promotions, and availability is often displayed in non-standard formats that require ongoing adjustments to parsing logic.
Because of these factors, data collection can never be 100% perfect. However, CommerceIQ’s dashboard ensures that when issues occur, you can clearly see the impact.
How the gather completeness dashboard helps
The gather completeness dashboard provides you with:
Transparency into coverage: See exactly what percentage of your SKUs, attributes, and retailers were successfully gathered.
Confidence in decision-making: By surfacing data gaps alongside successfully gathered data, you know which insights are fully reliable and where caution is warranted.
Continuous improvement: CommerceIQ’s product and engineering teams use these reports to proactively adapt to retailer changes and improve crawling performance over time.
Key takeaway
While retailer crawling comes with challenges, CommerceIQ’s gather completeness dashboard gives you the visibility and assurance you need to trust the data that powers your digital shelf optimization. It’s not just about surfacing metrics, it’s about providing the transparency to understand your data quality, act with confidence, and drive ecommerce growth.