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The State of Salla in 2026

Updated Jul 31 2026

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 24,724 live stores running on the Salla platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Salla.

  • Salla stores increased 10.7% quarter-over-quarter in 2026 Q2.
  • Salla stores increased 15634% year-over-year in 2026 Q2.
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
5,676
2026 Q1
4,889
2026 Q2
22,342
2026 Q3 (to date)
24,724
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 70.1% of Salla stores.
  • Tiktok is used by 41.4% of Salla stores.
  • Snapchat is used by 37.2% of Salla stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
17,342
Tiktok
10,240
Snapchat
9,192
Twitter
7,295
YouTube
3,601
Facebook
2,307
WhatsApp
1,252
LinkedIn
139
Discord
16
Pinterest
6
Facebook Group
6
Soundcloud
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.

  • 53% of Salla stores have an email on their website
  • 6% of Salla stores provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
13,030
Phone
1,451

Top Categories For Salla Stores

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

  • 16.5% of Salla stores sell Apparel products.
  • 15.2% of Salla stores sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 9.1% of Salla stores sell Food & Drink products.

Top Countries For Salla Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Salla.

  • 18.1% of Salla stores are in Saudi Arabia
  • 0.2% of Salla stores are in Montenegro
  • 0.1% of Salla stores are in United Arab Emirates
  • 0.1% of Salla stores are in United States

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.

  • 99.1% of Salla stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.3% of Salla stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.2% of Salla stores have 10 - 24 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
24,490
1 - 9
69
10 - 24
42
25 - 49
30
50 - 99
25
100 - 249
11
250 - 999
42
1000 - 4999
8
5000+
7

Number Of Products Sold For Salla Stores

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

  • 17.4% of Salla stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 7.5% of Salla stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
  • 6.9% of Salla stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
4,302
10 - 24
1,855
25 - 49
1,281
50 - 99
838
100 - 249
1,711
250 - 999
1,089
1000 - 4999
397
5000 - 9999
18
10000 - 24999
7
100000 - 249999
3

Top Technologies on Salla Stores

We're tracking 97 different technologies that have 655,104 collective installs on Salla stores.

  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 99.5% of Salla stores.
  • Google Tag Manager is used by 99.4% of Salla stores.
  • Sift is used by 99.3% of Salla stores.

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

Technology
Stores
24,554
24,392
24,376
24,334

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Salla Stores

  • Aramex is used by 0.1% of Salla stores.
  • UPS is used by 0.0% of Salla stores.
  • DHL is used by 0.0% of Salla stores.

Here are the top 6 shipping carriers across all Salla stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Aramex
24
UPS
8
DHL
6
Fedex
4
USPS
3
ORLEN
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.

  • 85.4% of Salla stores have a .com domain.
  • 6.9% of Salla stores have a .sa domain.
  • 1.8% of Salla stores have a .store domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
21,112
.sa
1,698
.store
434
.com.sa
389
.net
258
.org.sa
202
.co
149
.shop
115
.online
97
.me
41

Top Salla Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
SEVEN STORE
5,784
2021/08/13
laverne.com
19,827
2021/10/29
mahally.com
21,841
2021/03/26
daralamirat.com.sa
23,256
2021/01/22
Reef Perfumes
25,399
2021/10/15

New Salla Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
mazanwatches.com
2,070,840
2026/07/31
khuzamoud.com
3,064,333
2026/07/31
basmetaml.com
3,141,424
2026/07/31
lauveearabia.com
3,354,057
2026/07/31
alearab.com
3,677,914
2026/07/31

Stores Switching to Salla From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has taken 147 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
Cardial | كارديال
84,611
Custom Cart
2026/07/22
rasees.net
85,137
Zid
2026/07/12
مفارش الحبيب | Alhabib Shop
129,967
Custom Cart
2026/07/15
Beyyak
142,626
Custom Cart
2026/07/02
faisalaldayel.com
187,653
Zid
2026/06/27

Stores Switching from Salla To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has lost 75 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform
Stores
54
1

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

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
hassm.com
201,040
Custom Cart
2026/07/01
Jo Drinks
520,283
Zid
2026/06/22
Quiet Sleep
1,125,050
Shopify
2026/07/20
bohy11.com
1,722,902
Zid
2026/06/30
karaker0.com
1,740,441
Zid
2026/05/10

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