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The State of EC Force in 2025

Updated May 16 2025

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on EC Force usage.

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EC Force Growth

At present, there are 889 live stores running on the EC Force platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running EC Force.

  • EC Force stores increased 7.5% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q1.
Quarter
Active Stores
2024 Q2
717
2024 Q3
795
2024 Q4
787
2025 Q1
827
2025 Q2 (to date)
889
Active Stores by Quarter
2024 Q22024 Q32024 Q42025 Q12025 Q20100200300400500600700800900

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a EC Force store was first created but we use a heuristic that includes historical DNS data which provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On EC Force Stores

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

  • Instagram is used by 53.0% of EC Force stores.
  • Twitter is used by 23.6% of EC Force stores.
  • Facebook is used by 13.9% of EC Force stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
471
Twitter
210
Facebook
124
YouTube
43
Tiktok
22
LinkedIn
8
Pinterest
1

Contact Information On EC Force Stores

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

  • 34% of EC Force stores have an email on their website
  • 24% of EC Force stores provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
301
Phone
213

Top Categories For EC Force Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on EC Force.

  • 2.4% of EC Force stores sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 0.9% of EC Force stores sell Health products.
  • 0.6% of EC Force stores sell Food & Drink products.
Beauty & FitnessHealthFood & DrinkApparelJobs & EducationBusiness & IndustrialSportsComputers

Top Countries For EC Force Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using EC Force.

  • 54.7% of EC Force stores are in Japan
  • 1.1% of EC Force stores are in Ecuador
  • 0.1% of EC Force stores are in Montenegro
  • 0.1% of EC Force stores are in United States
Country
Stores
486
10
JapanEcuador

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

Number Of Employees For EC Force Stores

Here is the breakdown of EC Force stores by the number of employees.

  • 98.2% of EC Force stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.4% of EC Force stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.4% of EC Force stores have 50 - 99 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
873
1 - 9
4
10 - 24
4
25 - 49
1
50 - 99
4
100 - 249
3
Unknown

Number Of Products Sold For EC Force Stores

Here is the breakdown of EC Force stores by the number of products that they sell.

  • 43.3% of EC Force stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 13.2% of EC Force stores sell 25 - 49 different products.
  • 8.8% of EC Force stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
385
10 - 24
78
25 - 49
117
50 - 99
20
100 - 249
69
250 - 999
37
1000 - 4999
9
5000 - 9999
3
10000 - 24999
2
100000 - 249999
1
1 - 910 - 2425 - 4950 - 99100 - 249250 - 999

Top Technologies on EC Force Stores

We're tracking 63 different technologies that have 7,712 collective installs on EC Force stores.

  • Cloudfront CDN is used by 99.3% of EC Force stores.
  • New Relic is used by 99.3% of EC Force stores.
  • reCAPTCHA is used by 98.1% of EC Force stores.

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

Top Shipping Carriers Used By EC Force Stores

  • Yamato Transport is used by 36.3% of EC Force stores.
  • Sagawa Express is used by 2.2% of EC Force stores.
  • Japan Post is used by 1.7% of EC Force stores.

Here are the top 4 shipping carriers across all EC Force stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Yamato Transport
323
Sagawa Express
20
Japan Post
15
USPS
1

EC Force Store Top-level Domain Distribution

Here is the top-level domain distribution for EC Force stores.

  • 39.4% of EC Force stores have a .jp domain.
  • 36.4% of EC Force stores have a .com domain.
  • 11.0% of EC Force stores have a .co.jp domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.jp
350
.com
324
.co.jp
98
.shop
41
.net
24
.tokyo
9
.store
5
.clinic
4
.online
4
.style
3
.jp.com.co.jp.shop.net

Top EC Force Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by EC Force, ordered by store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Wonjungyo
57,868
2022/09/02
DR.VAPE(ドクターベイプ)公式サイト
60,874
2017/07/28
フラコラ(FRACORA)公式オンラインショップ
77,323
2016/12/30
lululun.com
96,136
2018/02/23
KINS
98,239
2019/09/06

New EC Force Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
LINK+U (リンク) 公式オンラインショップ
3,468,461
2025/05/16
mybrown(マイブラウン)
3,491,751
2025/05/16
iTOKUHASHi(イトクハシ)公式オンラインサイト
3,518,228
2025/05/16
【公式】IDEA STORE(イデアストア公式店)
3,734,951
2025/05/16
OLaPA(オラパ)│公式オンラインストア
4,810,524
2025/05/16

Stores Switching to EC Force From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, EC Force has taken 14 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores
1
Custom CartShopifyW2 RepeatWix

Here are the top stores that have switched to EC Force from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
チャッピー(Chappy)
319,181
Custom Cart
2025/04/21
www.arahataen.com
675,909
Custom Cart
2025/04/15
sakehack.com
1,233,791
Shopify
2025/05/13
枕 THE PILLOW
1,452,793
Shopify
2025/04/29
deerskitchen.jp
2,433,979
Shopify
2025/03/13

Stores Switching from EC Force To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, EC Force has lost 5 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform
Stores
ShopifyEC-CUBEWooCommerce

Here are the top EC Force stores that have recently changed to a competitive platform.

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
Liberta Perfume(リベルタパフューム)|オーダーメイド香水
341,215
Shopify
2025/03/02
LOWAN (ロワン) ステムアイクリーム
1,999,070
Shopify
2025/04/06
marinegold.net
2,589,241
EC-CUBE
2025/04/27
Ophir
3,207,122
Shopify
2025/04/06
idplacosme.jp
5,719,885
WooCommerce
2025/04/27

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