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The State of Salla in 2024

Updated Dec 13 2024

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 18,796 live stores running on the Salla platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Salla.

  • Salla stores increased 9.3% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q3.
  • Salla stores decreased -13% year-over-year in 2024 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 (to date)
18,796
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 71.7% of Salla stores.
  • Tiktok is used by 39.6% of Salla stores.
  • Snapchat is used by 37.5% of Salla stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
13,485
Tiktok
7,435
Snapchat
7,043
Twitter
6,429
YouTube
2,616
Facebook
2,129
WhatsApp
834
LinkedIn
74
Pinterest
6
Facebook Group
2

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.

  • 47% of Salla stores have an email on their website
  • 33% of Salla stores provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
8,779
Phone
6,188

Top Categories For Salla Stores

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

  • 12.8% of Salla stores sell Apparel products.
  • 12.4% of Salla stores sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 6.4% of Salla stores sell Home & Garden products.

Top Countries For Salla Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Salla.

  • 40.9% of Salla stores are in Saudi Arabia
  • 0.2% of Salla stores are in Montenegro
  • 0.1% of Salla stores are in United States
  • 0.0% of Salla stores are in Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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.

  • 99.2% of Salla stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.3% of Salla stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.1% of Salla stores have 10 - 24 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
18,654
1 - 9
49
10 - 24
26
25 - 49
18
50 - 99
10
100 - 249
12
250 - 999
13
1000 - 4999
9
5000+
5

Number Of Products Sold For Salla Stores

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

  • 18.6% of Salla stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 10.6% of Salla stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
  • 9.1% of Salla stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
3,500
10 - 24
1,703
25 - 49
1,435
50 - 99
790
100 - 249
2,000
250 - 999
1,089
1000 - 4999
264
5000 - 9999
70
10000 - 24999
27
25000 - 99999
9

Top Technologies on Salla Stores

We're tracking 61 different technologies that have 495,628 collective installs on Salla stores.

  • Sift is used by 99.7% of Salla stores.
  • Google Adsense is used by 99.6% of Salla stores.
  • Google Tag Manager is used by 99.6% of Salla stores.

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

Technology
Stores
18,731
18,684
18,683
18,673
18,663
18,663

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Salla Stores

  • Aramex is used by 0.2% of Salla stores.
  • DHL is used by 0.0% of Salla stores.
  • UPS is used by 0.0% of Salla stores.

Here are the top 5 shipping carriers across all Salla stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Aramex
32
DHL
5
UPS
5
Fedex
5
USPS
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.

  • 87.9% of Salla stores have a .com domain.
  • 5.6% of Salla stores have a .sa domain.
  • 1.5% of Salla stores have a .com.sa domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
16,523
.sa
1,047
.com.sa
281
.net
216
.store
204
.co
135
.shop
101
.org.sa
63
.me
34
.online
29

Top Salla Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
laverne.com
35,521
2021/10/29
zyros.com
43,299
2017/03/24
3saf.com
62,879
2021/09/10
Sfaqatcom
65,435
2018/04/27
‏ REEF Perfumes
78,627
2021/10/15

New Salla Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
antiqaa.com
3,899,495
2024/12/13
Care Zone pharmacy
4,105,458
2024/12/13
alrayanjewelry.com
5,979,139
2024/12/13
qstore-sa.store
6,299,968
2024/12/13
spark-wash.com
6,308,979
2024/12/13

Stores Switching to Salla From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has taken 115 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores
35
17
6
4
2
1

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
‏ REEF Perfumes
78,627
Shopify
2024/11/09
laftah.com
131,556
WooCommerce
2024/11/22
Al ARRAB CONTRACTING COMPANY
140,233
WooCommerce
2024/11/27
alghomlas.sa
174,133
WooCommerce
2024/11/16
t5ear.com
184,432
Custom Cart
2024/10/28

Stores Switching from Salla To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has lost 36 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform
Stores
19
1
1

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

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
wooden.sa
395,095
Zid
2024/11/02
partcomap.com
451,894
nopCommerce
2024/09/23
bukhamseenbedding.com
871,516
Zid
2024/12/03
bronez
1,129,067
Shopify
2024/12/09
alriyfstore.com
1,461,404
Zid
2024/11/13

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