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The State of Ecommerce in 2025

Updated Mar 21 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 13,241,734 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
4,597,819
2,513,618
1,657,712
Wix
680,141
331,418
271,264
260,502
212,277
193,073
191,014
184,469
131,679
131,458
112,505
91,866
69,015
63,667
60,017
54,855
41,998
40,863
40,267
37,104
35,156
34,870
34,832
32,678
32,068
30,660
30,026
26,604
24,273
20,546
20,116
19,277
17,552
17,314
17,276
16,251
16,223
15,605
15,517
14,799
14,632
13,828
13,170
11,031
10,876
10,857
10,820
10,643
10,530
10,083
10,049
9,411
8,862
8,727
8,585
8,436
8,351
8,278
Zid
7,983
7,745
7,590
7,566
7,565
7,528
7,447
7,349
7,340
7,218
7,083
6,813
6,663
6,544
6,314
6,256
6,164
5,990
5,936
5,738
5,722
5,190
4,802
4,725
4,523
4,444
4,411
OMG
4,332
3,934
3,763
WooCommerceShopifyCustom CartWixSquarespaceSquare OnlineBandcampEcwid

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.com
1
Custom Cart
2016/12/30
Apple
2
Custom Cart
2025/03/07
Walmart
3
Custom Cart
2016/12/30
eBay
4
Custom Cart
2016/12/30
Target
5
Custom Cart
2016/12/30

New Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Platform
Created
Katami
43,823
Bentobox
2025/03/21
Tiger and Peacock
120,287
Bentobox
2025/03/21
www.goobne.co.kr
128,684
Custom Cart
2025/03/21
Shosha Restaurant
137,812
Popmenu
2025/03/21
Main Deck
144,141
Bentobox
2025/03/21

Category Breakdown

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

Category
Stores
Apparel
1,092,844
Home & Garden
742,954
Food & Drink
557,987
Beauty & Fitness
521,430
Arts & Entertainment
450,886
People & Society
417,642
Business & Industrial
370,015
Health
317,366
Sports
265,481
Jobs & Education
236,198
Computers
203,718
Autos & Vehicles
189,671
Toys & Hobbies
160,225
Travel
124,907
Pets & Animals
124,221
Gifts & Special Events
122,870
Consumer Electronics
113,752
Internet
101,739
Books & Literature
87,778
ApparelHome & GardenFood & DrinkBeauty & FitnessArts & EntertainmentPeople & SocietyBusiness & IndustrialHealthSportsJobs & EducationComputersAutos & VehiclesToys & HobbiesTravelPets & AnimalsGifts & Special EventsConsumer ElectronicsInternet

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
3,323,349
United States
2,968,542
United Kingdom
608,240
Brazil
423,749
Germany
398,054
Canada
337,745
Australia
321,885
India
296,769
France
295,541
Netherlands
262,772
United StatesUnited KingdomBrazilGermanyCanadaAustraliaIndiaFranceNetherlands

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
6,726,339
Phone
6,142,605
Instagram
5,230,263
Facebook
4,283,071
YouTube
1,465,421
Twitter
1,210,296
LinkedIn
740,845
Tiktok
608,463
WhatsApp
561,238
Pinterest
475,895

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 860 different technologies that have 61,752,385 collective installs.

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

Technology
Stores
4,540,141
4,425,931
4,397,058
4,240,317
3,685,605
3,289,976
2,952,544
2,571,416
2,350,537
2,150,407

Shipping Carriers

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

Shipping Carrier
Stores
USPS
511,007
UPS
451,277
Fedex
233,470
Correios
113,075
Royal Mail
98,013
Australia Post
67,091
Canada Post
44,031
Correos
38,810
DHL
28,477
InPost
14,454

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
7,099,398
.com.br
355,437
.shop
341,619
.de
329,137
.co.uk
298,773
.org
229,640
.net
209,142
.nl
207,093
.ru
194,205
.com.au
191,919
.com.com.br.shop.de.co.uk.org.net.nl.ru.com.au

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