The State of SIDES in 2026

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

• SIDES growth
• Social media usage on SIDES stores
• Contact information on SIDES stores
• Top categories for SIDES stores
• Top countries for SIDES stores
• Number of employees for SIDES stores
• Number of products sold for SIDES stores
• Top SIDES technologies
• Top Shipping Carriers used by SIDES stores
• SIDES store top-level domain distribution
• Top SIDES stores
• New SIDES stores
• Stores switching to SIDES from other platforms
• Stores switching from SIDES to other platforms

SIDES Growth

At present, there are 1,489 live stores running on the SIDES platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running SIDES.

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

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

Social Media Usage On SIDES 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 3.6% of SIDES stores.
• Facebook is used by 3.6% of SIDES stores.
• LinkedIn is used by 0.8% of SIDES stores.

Contact Information On SIDES 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.

• 25% of SIDES stores provide a phone number on their website
• 4% of SIDES stores have an email on their website

Top Categories For SIDES Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on SIDES.

• 41.8% of SIDES stores sell Food & Drink products.
• 0.9% of SIDES stores sell Home & Garden products.
• 0.3% of SIDES stores sell Travel products.

Top Countries For SIDES Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using SIDES.

• 83.5% of SIDES stores are in Germany
• 5.2% of SIDES stores are in Netherlands
• 1.8% of SIDES stores are in Switzerland
• 0.4% of SIDES stores are in Austria

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

Number Of Employees For SIDES Stores

Here is the breakdown of SIDES stores by the number of employees.

• 99.8% of SIDES stores have Unknown employees.
• 0.1% of SIDES stores have 50 - 99 employees.
• 0.1% of SIDES stores have 100 - 249 employees.

Number Of Products Sold For SIDES Stores

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

• 17.9% of SIDES stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
• 4.9% of SIDES stores sell 25 - 49 different products.
• 2.1% of SIDES stores sell 10 - 24 different products.

Top Technologies on SIDES Stores

We're tracking 35 different technologies that have 3,718 collective installs on SIDES stores.

• Amazon SES is used by 69.0% of SIDES stores.
• Cloudflare is used by 63.8% of SIDES stores.
• Cloudflare CDN is used by 63.2% of SIDES stores.

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

Top Shipping Carriers Used By SIDES Stores

• ORLEN is used by 0.1% of SIDES stores.

Here are the top 1 shipping carriers across all SIDES stores.

SIDES Store Top-level Domain Distribution

Here is the top-level domain distribution for SIDES stores.

• 83.3% of SIDES stores have a .de domain.
• 7.7% of SIDES stores have a .com domain.
• 5.2% of SIDES stores have a .nl domain.

Top SIDES Stores

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

New SIDES Stores

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

Stores Switching to SIDES From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, SIDES has taken 684 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

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

Stores Switching from SIDES To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, SIDES has lost 239 merchants to competitive platforms.

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

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