Shopify is the most popular ecommerce platform in the world but how many Shopify Stores are there?
In this post, we are going to break down the following:
- How many Shopify Stores there are
- How many Shopify Plus Stores there are
- How Many Shopify Stores in the US
- How Many Shopify Stores in the UK
Key Takeaways
Here are the 5 key takeaways from this post:
- There are 4.28 Million Shopify Stores worldwide
- Shopify Stores make up about 2.1% of All Active Websites
- There are 33,028 Shopify Plus stores worldwide
- There are 2.69 Million Shopify Stores in the US
- There are 186,677 Shopify Stores in the UK
How Many Shopify Stores Are There?
In total, there are 4.28 Million Shopify Stores worldwide, which is around 26% of all ecommerce websites, which is pretty impressive and is more than WooCommerce (20%), Squarespace (15%) and Wix (14%).
When looking at the web as a whole, Shopify stores make up around 2.1% of all the current active websites (there are an estimated 201 million active websites).
Of the top 1 million websites in the world, 271,786 are ecommerce websites and 31,961 are using Shopify. This means that Shopify powers 3.1% of the top 1 million sites, which is just ahead of WooCommerce (powers 2.7% of the top 1 million).
Of the top 100,000 websites, 3,236 of these are Shopify stores, meaning that they power 3.2% of the top 100k sites, which is over 1% more than any other ecommerce platform.
Of the top 10,000 websites, 447 of these are powered by Shopify, meaning that 4.4% of the top 10k websites in the world a run on Shopify, which is significantly more than any other ecommerce platform.
This just goes to show that even though Shopify is popular with ecommerce stores of all sizes, it becomes a more popular option for bigger websites.
How Many Shopify Plus Stores Are There?
There are 33,028 Shopify Plus stores, which is around 0.2% of all the ecommerce websites in the world.
And what is crazy about this figure is that there are more Shopify Plus stores than Shift4Shop (12,480) and Volusion (6,808) combined.
With Shopify Plus being an enterprise-level solution, it isn’t surprising that it becomes a more popular option among larger websites:
- Shopify Plus powers 0.5% of the top 1 million websites
- Shopify Plus powers 0.4% of the top 100k websites
- Shopify Plus powers 0.6% of the top 10k websites
Sources: Builtwith
How Many Shopify Stores Are There in the US?
There are 2.69 Million Shopify Stores in the US and it is by far the most used ecommerce platform, with 20% off all US ecommerce websites running on Shopify.
The closest platforms are Squarespace (1.94 million), WooCommerce (1.66 million) and Wix (1.46 million) and the US market is by far the most important for Shopify as over 50% of stores are based in the US.
Sources: Builtwith
How Many Shopify Stores Are There in the UK?
There are 186,677 Shopify Stores in the UK and powers 15% of the UK’s ecommerce websites but it isn’t the most used platform in the UK, WooCommerce just (and we mean just) takes it as there are around 4,000 more stores powered by Woo.
It is still some way ahead of the third (Squarespace 153,112) and fourth (Wix 136,696) in terms of user numbers but the UK is the second most important market for Shopify in terms of users as there are more Shopify stores in the UK than there are in Australia, Brazil or Germany.
Below is a breakdown of the ten most important markets for Shopify based on the number of users:
| Country | Number of Shopify Stores | % of Ecommerce Stores |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 2.67 Million | 20% |
| UK | 186,677 | 15% |
| Australia | 135,341 | 21% |
| Brazil | 117,927 | 16% |
| Germany | 106,718 | 15% |
| Canada | 104,017 | 22% |
| France | 58,240 | 10% |
| India | 43,049 | 10% |
| Netherlands | 41,410 | 11% |
| Italy | 38,848 | 8% |
Sources: Builtwith
Conclusion
Shopify is a powerhouse in the world of ecommerce and is one of the most used platforms in all the major ecommerce markets.
It is also one of the few platforms to host millions of websites and the only dedicated ecommerce platform to do so, which shows just how influential Shopify is.
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