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The State of Ecommerce in 2024

Updated Dec 13 2024

Ecommerce platform usage has exploded over recent years as the world's economy transitions to online. Our mission is to observe and inform on ecommerce usage trends so that app developers and marketers can help merchants succeed. To that end, we are tracking 13,073,175 live stores running on 100 different ecommerce platforms.

Platform Distribution

Here is a summary of the current state of the ecommerce platforms wars:

  • By merchant count, WooCommerce and Shopify dominate. Shopify is growing slightly faster, appears to have greater mindshare and has larger merchants on average.
  • Magento and PrestaShop are quite close, in terms of merchant count, but the average Magento merchant is much larger.
  • Square Online is the ecommerce platform with the highest percentage growth, though it mostly powers micro-merchants.
  • Salesforce Commerce Cloud powers relatively few stores but their stores are some of the biggest merchants around (Patagonia, PUMA, etc.)

Platform
Active Stores
4,766,353
2,429,914
1,661,840
Wix
457,132
317,077
264,560
260,096
199,961
197,670
192,432
189,923
131,095
125,883
110,505
79,802
66,770
61,974
54,807
52,923
42,903
42,581
38,984
38,852
35,088
35,003
33,677
31,666
31,301
30,789
29,888
27,440
24,336
21,052
21,030
18,949
18,796
17,443
17,320
17,174
17,167
16,626
16,346
14,775
14,365
14,120
13,311
11,592
11,156
10,996
10,861
10,609
10,491
10,389
10,223
9,712
9,498
9,025
8,698
8,597
8,571
Zid
8,420
8,057
8,017
7,817
7,589
7,362
7,120
7,113
6,846
6,832
6,823
6,691
6,647
6,631
6,588
6,561
6,241
6,176
6,006
5,920
5,796
5,786
4,700
4,666
4,647
4,382
4,357
4,354
4,055
3,851

Top Stores

Here are the top 0 ecommerce stores, across the platforms we track, ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Platform
Created
Amazon
1
Custom Cart
2016/12/30
Walmart
2
Custom Cart
2016/12/30
eBay
3
Custom Cart
2016/12/30
Target
4
Custom Cart
2016/12/30
Etsy
5
Custom Cart
2016/12/30

New Stores

Here are the 0 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Name
Domain
Rank
Platform
Created
www.hallmarkmystery.com
5,458
Custom Cart
2024/12/13
Grand Hotel Sitea
70,542
WooCommerce
2024/12/13
www.hoopscabaret.com
118,777
Custom Cart
2024/12/13
www.historicgeorgetown.org
136,433
Custom Cart
2024/12/13
crosswindsfamilycampground.com
156,371
Custom Cart
2024/12/13

Category Breakdown

Here are the top 20 industry verticals for stores on the platforms we track.

Category
Stores
Apparel
1,123,134
Home & Garden
742,546
Food & Drink
557,020
Beauty & Fitness
519,023
Arts & Entertainment
449,629
People & Society
396,733
Business & Industrial
352,874
Health
299,141
Sports
264,902
Jobs & Education
226,517
Computers
202,773
Autos & Vehicles
187,508
Toys & Hobbies
163,396
Gifts & Special Events
126,619
Pets & Animals
122,684
Travel
115,805
Consumer Electronics
114,199
Internet
98,942
Books & Literature
88,434

Country Breakdown

Across the platforms we track, the largest install base is within the United States. But the platforms have a solid presence within the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia as well.

Country
Stores
None
3,612,099
United States
2,762,931
United Kingdom
570,164
Brazil
423,762
Germany
376,523
Canada
319,386
Australia
306,704
France
288,006
India
276,908
Netherlands
256,144

Social Media and Contact Info

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest have significant presence across stores, with Facebook and Instagram especially showing quite strongly.

As expected, email remains an extremely popular communication channel.

Type
Stores
Email
6,616,199
Phone
5,960,623
Instagram
5,150,291
Facebook
4,334,943
YouTube
1,420,595
Twitter
1,226,507
LinkedIn
705,889
Tiktok
584,657
WhatsApp
552,340
Pinterest
490,394

Third-Party Technologies

Many merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from their ecommerce platform's App Store. We're tracking 838 different technologies that have 62,018,643 collective installs.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all stores.

Technology
Stores
4,703,593
4,410,591
4,238,834
4,065,607
3,688,880
2,935,819
2,782,742
2,618,776
2,272,264
2,151,476

Shipping Carriers

Here are the top 10 shipping carriers, ordered by frequency of use, across all stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
USPS
524,310
UPS
491,913
Fedex
263,616
Correios
116,125
Royal Mail
101,230
Australia Post
67,363
Canada Post
48,642
Correos
45,351
DHL
28,576
InPost
14,427

Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for ecommerce stores. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only recently been introduced and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
6,996,830
.shop
421,223
.com.br
354,087
.de
310,802
.co.uk
293,430
.org
212,378
.net
205,143
.nl
203,666
.ru
199,353
.com.au
188,066

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