The State of Big Cartel

Founded in 2005, Big Cartel is an e-commerce platform for artists and makers.

Quarterly Growth

At present, there are 137,019 live stores running on the Big Cartel platform.

Here is the quarter-over-quarter growth of stores running Big Cartel.

It's hard to know exactly when a Big Cartel store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by Big Cartel, ordered by worldwide store rank.

New Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked new stores that are running Big Cartel.

Platform Wins

Over the last 90 days, Big Cartel has taken 379 merchants from competitive platforms.

Platform Win Stores

Here are the top stores won from competitive platforms.

Platform Losses

Over the last 90 days, Big Cartel has lost 728 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform Loss Stores

Here are the top stores lost to competitive platforms.

Category Breakdown

Here are the top 20 industry verticals for stores on Big Cartel.

Country Breakdown

Big Cartel is quite popular in the United States.

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Social Media and Contact Info

Email and phone are the primary means of contacting merchants running on Big Cartel.

This is in contrast with merchants using other e-commerce platforms that have much higher usage of social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

Third-Party Technologies

Many Big Cartel merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Big Cartel App Store. We're tracking 50 different technologies that have 241,884 collective installs on Big Cartel stores.

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

Top-level Domain Distribution

Most Big Cartel stores use a .com domain. 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.

Get more insights on Big Cartel stores

Our search interface is easy to use and helps you find the Big Cartel stores that are relevant to you.

You can segment stores on a variety of dimensions:

• Social Media accounts
• Email address
• Phone numbers
• Country
• Third-party technologies
• Creation date
• Platform
• Top-level domains
• Domain status
• Domain type

Filter on stores with Facebook accounts.

For more insights on Big Cartel stores, create a free account and have a look for yourself.