Similarweb Pets Retail & Services Market Update: December 2022

Rover remains the strongest growth story, while Chewy’s traffic was down 9.6%

Pet retail growth was scarce in December, but the dog walking and pet sitting services business Rover continues to gain both traffic and market share.

Key takeaways 

• Chewy’s December traffic was down 8.7% year-over-year and 3.6% compared with November.
• Bark Box was down 23.3% year-over-year, although, on a month-over-month basis, it was up  25.8%.
• Rover’s web traffic was up 9.6% year over year and 9.4% compared with November, signaling ongoing growth. Wag Walking, despite being in a similar business, has not managed to show the same kind of consistent growth.
• PetSmart saw modest gains, with traffic up 1.7% year-over-year and a share of traffic within this peer group to 18.2%, up from 17% in December 2021.

We track these statistics as early indicators of business growth and revenue.

Year over Year Traffic

Month over Month Traffic

Traffic Share Trend

Chewy still commands more than half the traffic generated by this peer group, but its share declined in December to 51.7%, compared with 53.8% in December 2022. Over the same period, PetSmart increased its share from 17% to 18.2%, and Rover increased its share by a full point, to 7.7%.

Companies mentioned in this report include Chewy Inc. (NYSE: CHWY), Petco (NASDAQ: WOOF), PetSmart LLC (NASDAQ: PETM), Rover (NASDAQ: ROVR), and Wag (NASDAQ: PET), and Bark Box Inc. (NASDAQ: BARK). The primary statistics cited in this report are for traffic from within the United States.

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Report By: David F. Carr, Senior Insights Manager

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by David F. Carr

David covers social media, digital advertising, and generative AI. With a background in web trends since the 1990s, he’s also the author of "Social Collaboration for Dummies".