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The State of Salla in 2025

Updated Apr 11 2025

Founded in 2016, Salla is a Shopify-like ecommerce platform that allows anyone to set up their Arabic ecommerce stores to sell online using their platform and tools.

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

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Salla Growth

At present, there are 151 live stores running on the Salla platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Salla.

  • Salla stores decreased -17.9% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q1.
  • Salla stores decreased -99% year-over-year in 2025 Q1.
Quarter
Active Stores
2020 Q4
6,194
2021 Q1
5,556
2021 Q2
7,571
2021 Q3
8,076
2021 Q4
9,166
2022 Q1
10,185
2022 Q2
11,108
2022 Q3
14,639
2022 Q4
16,254
2023 Q1
17,169
2023 Q2
16,754
2023 Q3
19,725
2023 Q4
21,854
2024 Q1
22,252
2024 Q2
20,901
2024 Q3
17,191
2024 Q4
14,326
2025 Q1
184
2025 Q2 (to date)
151
Active Stores by Quarter
2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q32021 Q42022 Q12022 Q22022 Q32022 Q42023 Q12023 Q22023 Q32023 Q42024 Q12024 Q22024 Q32024 Q42025 Q12025 Q202,0004,0006,0008,00010,00012,00014,00016,00018,00020,00022,00024,000

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

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

Social Media Usage On Salla 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 25.8% of Salla stores.
  • Snapchat is used by 13.2% of Salla stores.
  • Twitter is used by 13.2% of Salla stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
39
Snapchat
20
Twitter
20
Tiktok
17
WhatsApp
14
Facebook
10
YouTube
10
LinkedIn
3

Contact Information On Salla 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.

  • 52% of Salla stores provide a phone number on their website
  • 48% of Salla stores have an email on their website
Type
Stores
Phone
78
Email
73

Top Categories For Salla Stores

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

  • 36.4% of Salla stores sell Consumer Electronics products.
  • 5.3% of Salla stores sell Internet products.
  • 4.0% of Salla stores sell Apparel products.
Consumer ElectronicsInternetApparelFood & DrinkHome & GardenBooks & LiteratureBeauty & FitnessCoupons & DiscountsArts & EntertainmentGamesPeople & SocietyBusiness & Industrial

Top Countries For Salla Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Salla.

  • 66.2% of Salla stores are in Saudi Arabia
  • 2.0% of Salla stores are in United Arab Emirates
  • 0.7% of Salla stores are in Montenegro
  • 0.7% of Salla stores are in United States
Saudi ArabiaUnited Arab Emirates

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

Number Of Employees For Salla Stores

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

  • 98.0% of Salla stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.7% of Salla stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.7% of Salla stores have 50 - 99 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
148
1 - 9
1
25 - 49
1
50 - 99
1
Unknown

Number Of Products Sold For Salla Stores

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

  • 25.8% of Salla stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 11.3% of Salla stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
  • 6.0% of Salla stores sell 25 - 49 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
39
10 - 24
3
25 - 49
9
50 - 99
3
100 - 249
17
250 - 999
5
1000 - 4999
3
1 - 910 - 2425 - 4950 - 99100 - 249250 - 9991000 - 4999

Top Technologies on Salla Stores

We're tracking 49 different technologies that have 2,107 collective installs on Salla stores.

  • Sift is used by 63.6% of Salla stores.
  • Google Adsense is used by 55.0% of Salla stores.
  • TikTok Pixel is used by 53.0% of Salla stores.

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

Salla Store Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for Salla stores. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only been introduced somewhat recently and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

That said, you'll find stark regional differences in certain countries. In Australia, .com.au is the most common top-level domain with .com a close second. This is the exception however as .com domains dominate in virtually all other countries.

  • 53.6% of Salla stores have a .com domain.
  • 16.6% of Salla stores have a .store domain.
  • 10.6% of Salla stores have a .shop domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
81
.store
25
.shop
16
.net
7
.netlify.app
7
.sa
3
.pages.dev
2
.org.sa
2
.live
2
.tv
1
.com.store.shop.net.netlify.app.sa

Top Salla Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
alnukalyonline.com
99,769
2020/12/04
Cardial | كارديال
110,918
2019/08/30
Beyyak.com
113,857
2020/12/04
مفارش الحبيب | Alhabib Shop
163,885
2016/12/30
hassm.com
231,414
2018/06/08

New Salla Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
qstore-seudi.com
6,789,729
2025/04/11
alloloa-alhorra.com
7,390,435
2025/04/11
yaqoots-sa.com
7,779,405
2025/04/11
digitalizeuae.com
6,805,711
2025/04/04
STC STORE
7,873,073
2025/04/04

Stores Switching to Salla From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has taken 1 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores
Salesforce Commerce Cloud

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
khasm.net
2,354,873
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2025/03/09

Stores Switching from Salla To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has lost 46 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform
Stores
19
ZidShopifyWooCommerceCustom CartnopCommerceOpenCartMagento

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

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
alsaifco.sa
256,347
Zid
2025/02/04
shubra.online
275,257
OpenCart
2025/03/02
eshtrakati.com
461,090
WooCommerce
2025/03/16
Blue
642,193
Shopify
2025/03/03
toothbooth.net
779,450
Zid
2025/02/25

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