The State of Ecwid
Ecwid is an ecommerce platform that, when first released, allowed merchants to add ecommerce functionality to an existing website. The platform has since evolved to support complete standalone websites.
Quarterly Growth
At present, there are 84,935 live stores running on the Ecwid platform.
Here is the quarter-over-quarter growth of stores running Ecwid.
Cumulative Stores by Quarter
It's hard to know exactly when a Ecwid 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 Ecwid, ordered by worldwide store rank.
New Stores
Here are the 5 highest-ranked new stores that are running Ecwid.
Platform Wins
Over the last 90 days, Ecwid has taken 1,383 merchants from competitive platforms.
Platform Win Stores
Here are the top stores won from competitive platforms.
Platform Losses
Over the last 90 days, Ecwid has lost 738 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 Ecwid.
Country Breakdown
Ecwid 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 Ecwid.
This is in contrast with merchants using other ecommerce platforms that have much higher usage of social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.
Third-Party Technologies
Many Ecwid merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Ecwid App Store. We're tracking 128 different technologies that have 55,959 collective installs on Ecwid stores.
Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all Ecwid stores.
Top-level Domain Distribution
Most Ecwid 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 Ecwid stores
Our search interface is easy to use and helps you find the Ecwid 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

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