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The State of Ecommerce in 2025

Updated Jan 17 2025

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 13,547,464 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
4,687,807
2,509,655
1,663,426
Wix
918,332
322,930
267,967
260,496
203,273
196,381
190,266
189,973
129,904
125,282
111,112
83,348
71,844
61,982
56,722
51,526
43,245
42,459
39,772
38,244
35,601
34,818
33,687
31,782
30,939
30,849
29,843
27,129
24,150
20,883
20,746
19,281
17,445
17,330
17,268
17,266
16,503
16,104
15,845
14,582
14,065
13,590
12,134
11,039
10,897
10,868
10,663
10,575
10,418
10,159
9,662
9,592
8,968
8,888
8,604
8,518
Zid
8,242
8,021
7,915
7,646
7,619
7,394
7,158
7,088
6,996
6,939
6,886
6,882
6,856
6,853
6,831
6,785
6,610
6,266
6,139
5,937
5,876
5,872
5,866
4,931
4,726
4,589
4,463
4,395
4,280
4,007
3,885

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.sofianola.com
55,713
Popmenu
2025/01/17
Bill Dance Store
79,720
Shopify
2025/01/17
modi
80,069
Custom Cart
2025/01/17
Windham & Salem, NH
92,985
Magento
2025/01/17
GEI International, Inc.
93,103
Custom Cart
2025/01/17

Category Breakdown

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

Category
Stores
Apparel
1,131,162
Home & Garden
792,210
Food & Drink
567,208
Beauty & Fitness
550,419
Arts & Entertainment
470,362
People & Society
432,303
Business & Industrial
380,957
Health
327,055
Sports
279,698
Jobs & Education
244,202
Computers
209,196
Autos & Vehicles
196,128
Toys & Hobbies
166,218
Pets & Animals
129,601
Gifts & Special Events
127,665
Travel
126,288
Consumer Electronics
118,063
Internet
100,101
Books & Literature
90,419

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
3,602,081
United States
2,976,510
United Kingdom
607,677
Brazil
437,410
Germany
392,253
Canada
345,828
Australia
322,952
France
304,813
India
294,574
Netherlands
260,894

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
6,906,185
Phone
6,232,357
Instagram
5,335,513
Facebook
4,405,236
YouTube
1,481,929
Twitter
1,250,462
LinkedIn
735,779
Tiktok
612,219
WhatsApp
562,653
Pinterest
488,948

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 846 different technologies that have 62,201,092 collective installs.

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

Technology
Stores
4,628,335
4,438,972
4,377,449
4,243,200
3,702,435
3,260,213
3,007,546
2,600,603
2,276,764
2,151,208

Shipping Carriers

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

Shipping Carrier
Stores
USPS
577,569
UPS
528,028
Fedex
303,603
Correios
112,917
Royal Mail
100,978
Australia Post
67,580
Canada Post
45,915
Correos
41,189
DHL
28,629
InPost
14,385

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
7,274,169
.shop
451,297
.com.br
360,707
.de
321,789
.co.uk
309,197
.org
231,036
.net
215,271
.nl
206,385
.ru
197,384
.com.au
196,318

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