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The State of Salla in 2025

Updated Dec 5 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 906 live stores running on the Salla platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Salla.

  • Salla stores increased 445.8% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q3.
  • Salla stores decreased -99% year-over-year in 2025 Q3.
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
142
2025 Q3
166
2025 Q4 (to date)
906
Active Stores by Quarter

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 72.5% of Salla stores.
  • Tiktok is used by 44.2% of Salla stores.
  • Snapchat is used by 41.1% of Salla stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
657
Tiktok
400
Snapchat
372
Twitter
347
YouTube
195
Facebook
136
WhatsApp
48
LinkedIn
16
Facebook Group
1

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.

  • 56% of Salla stores have an email on their website
  • 31% of Salla stores provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
506
Phone
280

Top Categories For Salla Stores

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

  • 16.0% of Salla stores sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 14.8% of Salla stores sell Apparel products.
  • 8.4% of Salla stores sell Food & Drink products.

Top Countries For Salla Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Salla.

  • 39.8% of Salla stores are in Saudi Arabia
  • 0.3% of Salla stores are in United Arab Emirates
  • 0.3% of Salla stores are in Egypt
  • 0.3% of Salla stores are in Jordan

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.

  • 97.7% of Salla stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.9% of Salla stores have 250 - 999 employees.
  • 0.4% of Salla stores have 1 - 9 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
885
1 - 9
4
10 - 24
1
25 - 49
2
50 - 99
2
100 - 249
2
250 - 999
8
1000 - 4999
2

Number Of Products Sold For Salla Stores

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

  • 21.2% of Salla stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 13.8% of Salla stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
  • 9.8% of Salla stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
192
10 - 24
89
25 - 49
84
50 - 99
48
100 - 249
125
250 - 999
70
1000 - 4999
14
5000 - 9999
2
10000 - 24999
3
25000 - 99999
1

Top Technologies on Salla Stores

We're tracking 66 different technologies that have 7,759 collective installs on Salla stores.

  • Google Tag Manager is used by 92.4% of Salla stores.
  • Sift is used by 90.7% of Salla stores.
  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 89.7% of Salla stores.

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

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Salla Stores

  • Aramex is used by 0.1% of Salla stores.

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

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Aramex
1

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.

  • 82.8% of Salla stores have a .com domain.
  • 7.5% of Salla stores have a .sa domain.
  • 2.1% of Salla stores have a .net domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
750
.sa
68
.net
19
.store
15
.com.sa
12
.netlify.app
7
.org.sa
7
.shop
6
.co
5
.online
3

Top Salla Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Cardial | كارديال
112,271
2019/08/30
baby-story.com
128,747
2021/08/06
Beyyak.com
132,772
2020/12/04
alhussainattara.com
139,665
2023/11/24
ruby.sa
174,419
2018/06/15

New Salla Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
www.leedsfancydress.com
3,014,295
2025/12/05
brandphena.shop
brandphena.shop
6,866,739
2025/12/05
icardsword.store
7,279,326
2025/12/05
jairir.shop
jairir.shop
7,567,979
2025/12/05
wafa4.shop
wafa4.shop
8,346,509
2025/12/05

Stores Switching to Salla From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has taken 43 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
shubra.online
233,374
OpenCart
2025/10/02
rozana360.com
422,745
Zid
2025/11/16
أنفاسك ANFASAK
1,318,342
Zid
2025/11/16
MySouq
2,264,141
Custom Cart
2025/11/30
khairatlaziza
2,491,040
Zid
2025/11/16

Stores Switching from Salla To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has lost 48 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform
Stores
15

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

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
Access Denied
69,368
Shopify
2025/11/20
Just a moment...
144,390
Custom Cart
2025/11/19
evercare.sa
203,241
Shopify
2025/10/19
shakasa.com
475,013
Zid
2025/11/16
Malsa
535,741
Shopify
2025/11/03

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