Autotrader data analysis

Autotrader Inventory count

Date TOTAL INVENTORY COUNT (Out of 20753 dealers)
01-Aug 2110698
02-Aug 2092124
03-Aug 2089239
05-Aug 2103678
06-Aug 2116690
07-Aug 2113840
1 08-Aug 2109309
10-Aug 2072244
Average = 2100978 Stadard deviation(of no. of VINS) = 15237.7

On the basis of 8 days data of ~20K (20,753) dealers listed on Autotrader. The average no.
of listing on the website is 21 Lakhs (21,00,978) with standard deviation of ~15K VINs
count

Analysis from the list of ~18.3K dealers (i.e. dealers having Their own domain), that have
been used for mapping with
Cargurus

Average standard devaition for available data of VINs on each dealers

2.1
inventory page is of 4.95 (VINs)

Approximately ~220 dealers have zero listings on their inventory page of

2.2
autotrader
2 Approximately ~1,300 dealers have less than or equal to 5 listings on their
2.3
inventory page of autotrader
Approximately ~2,200 dealers have less than or equal to 10 listings on their
2.4
inventory page of autotrader
2.5 Around 20 dealers have 1000+ listings on their inventory page of autotrader

There are 33 dealers having abrupt change in the number of listings; having
2.6
average standard devaition for available data of VINs of more than 50.

Cargurus data analysis

Cargurus Inventory count
Date TOTAL INVENTORY COUNT (Out of 20753 dealers)
01-Aug 2725892
02-Aug 2724737
03-Aug 2734216
05-Aug 2621177
06-Aug 2688855
07-Aug 2696408
1 08-Aug 2768734
 1
10-Aug 2806707
Average = 2720841 Stadard deviation(of no. of VINS) = 55342.16

On the basis of 8 days data of ~36K (36,088) dealers listed on cargurus. The
average no. of listings by these dealers is 27.2 Lakhs (27,20,841) with standard
deviation of ~55K (VINs count)

Analysis of Cargurus Inventory from the list of ~36K dealers

Average standard devaition for available data of VINs on each dealers
2.1
inventory page is of 4.66 (VINs)
Approximately ~ 5.7K dealers have zero listings on their inventory
2.2
page
Approximately ~7.7K dealers have less than or equal to 5 listings on
2 2.3
their inventory page
Approximately ~9.75K dealers have less than or equal to 10
2.4
listings on their inventory page
2.5 Around 16 dealers have 1000+ listings on their inventory page
There are 121 dealers having abrupt change in the number of listings;
2.6 having average standard devaition for available data of VINs of more
than 50.

Autotrader vs Cargurus data analysis

Comparison of dealer wise listings of Autotrader and Cargurus
Attributes Autotrader Cargurus
No. of Dealers Listed 20753 36088
Total No. of Inventory
21 Lakhs 27 Lakhs
(Approx)
No. of Mapped dealers 13960 Dealers
Average of Mapped VIN's
1627469 (16.2 Lakhs) 1570273 (15.7 Lakhs)
count
Average of Un-mapped
426950 (4.2 Lakhs) 1244654 (12.4 Lakhs)
1 VIN's count
Average Count of mapped
dealers (out of 13.9K
dealers) having more 5046 Dealers 6093 Dealers
inventory on one
platform than other

Average count of dealers

2820 Dealers
having equal inventory

Why Autotrader has approximately 7 lakhs unique VINs ?

 Answer - It is mainly because of two reasons
Out of 18.5K dealers, 13.91K dealers are the mapped
1) dealers and ~ 4.4K dealers are unmapped dealers, contibuting
to 4.3 Lakhs VINs
2 The sum of diffrence is approx 1.8 Lakhs for the mapped
2) dealers who had more no. of inventory on Autotrader than
Cargurus
There will be some (very few) unique VINS on cargurus and
3) Autotrader. Even if, the count of inventory on both platform is
same.