Markets › hardware store chains 25 brands › lowes.com
How often is it named?
18/36
5 of 25 brands, across 6 questions about hardware store chains.
How is it described?
Not measured yet — nothing has asked about Lowe's by name.
Its 18 mentions come from neutral questions, which show how often it comes up but not how it is characterised.
Also named in 3 other markets.
10 brands in this market were named in none of the 36 answers: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Do it Best, MSC Industrial Supply, McMaster-Carr, Sam's Club, The Builders' Supply, Toolnut and 2 more.
Bigger sites do tend to get named more here, but the relationship is loose enough that size is far from the whole story.
↑how often assistants name it →how much traffic its website gets
Across is web prominence — the brand's domain in the Tranco ranking of the world's most-visited sites, on a logarithmic scale, so each step is roughly ten times more prominent. Up is how many of the 36 answers named it.
Every brand with a ranked domain is plotted, including a domain carrying a whole company still plausibly helps that company's products get named. Not plotted, having no ranked domain: Toolbarn.
Rank correlation +0.37 across 11 brands — a description of this picture, not a claim about the market as a whole.
By question
| Question | Answers | Named it |
|---|---|---|
| What are the best hardware store chains? | 3/6 | |
| What hardware store chains have the most locations near me? | 3/6 | |
| Which hardware store chains offer the best customer service? | 3/6 | |
| What hardware store chains are best for DIY home improvement projects? | 3/6 | |
| Which hardware stores have the best return policies? | 3/6 | |
| What hardware store chains are best for buying tools? | 3/6 |
Where it lands when answers rank brands
median position 2 of about 5
in the top three 93% of ranked answers
from 15 ranked answers
95% interval 34–66%
on its own count
The two assistants
| Assistant | Named it |
|---|---|
| anthropic | 18/36 (50%) |
Also named in
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Method
market hardware store chains
brands compared 25
answers 36
web prominence Tranco #948
Lowe's is counted by the same matcher as every other brand here, against the same list of names, from the same answers. It gets no extra aliases and no special handling.
Web search was off, so this measures what the models already know rather than what they would retrieve today. A difference smaller than about 12 points is not meaningful.
How the table is ordered. By how many of the 36 answers named each brand. Brands on the same count share a rank and are shown in the order the assistants tended to list them. A brand counts once per answer, however many times it is named in it.
How close is close. Two brands share a rank only when their counts are identical. Beyond that, a gap smaller than about four answers is inside what this measurement moves between runs — so read near-neighbours as close rather than settled, which is why every row keeps its interval.