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Shopify Stores in Kenya

Updated Dec 13 2024

There are 1,196 live Shopify stores in Kenya.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Shopify stores in Kenya.

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Shopify Growth in Kenya

Shopify's worldwide quarter-over-quarter growth has been quite impressive over the last few years, and that trend is visible within most countries.

  • Shopify stores in Kenya increased 9.6% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q3.
  • Shopify stores in Kenya increased 45% year-over-year in 2024 Q3.

Here is Shopify's quarter-over-quarter growth in Kenya.

Quarter
Active Stores
2019 Q1
147
2019 Q2
179
2019 Q3
192
2019 Q4
218
2020 Q1
224
2020 Q2
301
2020 Q3
377
2020 Q4
403
2021 Q1
399
2021 Q2
459
2021 Q3
480
2021 Q4
474
2022 Q1
455
2022 Q2
504
2022 Q3
517
2022 Q4
556
2023 Q1
623
2023 Q2
677
2023 Q3
755
2023 Q4
897
2024 Q1
956
2024 Q2
1,055
2024 Q3
1,091
2024 Q4 (to date)
1,196
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 Shopify store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Categories For Shopify Stores In Kenya

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for Shopify stores in Kenya.

  • 25.9% of Shopify stores in Kenya sell Apparel products.
  • 14.2% of Shopify stores in Kenya sell Home & Garden products.
  • 13.8% of Shopify stores in Kenya sell Beauty & Fitness products.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In Kenya

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 43.5% of Shopify stores in Kenya.
  • Facebook is used by 31.2% of Shopify stores in Kenya.
  • Twitter is used by 13.0% of Shopify stores in Kenya.
Type
Stores
Instagram
520
Facebook
373
Twitter
155
Tiktok
148
YouTube
122
Pinterest
60
LinkedIn
47
WhatsApp
27

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In Kenya

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 Shopify stores in Kenya have an email on their website
  • 40% of Shopify stores in Kenya provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
638
Phone
476

Shopify Plus Stores In Kenya

There are 5 Shopify Plus stores in Kenya. For more information on Shopify Plus, read our Shopify Plus report.

Provinces With The Most Shopify Stores In Kenya

It's relatively easy to identify the country in which an ecommerce store operates. However, very few ecommerce stores provide a location to the province-level or city-level and even fewer provide a street address.

Here is the province distribution of Shopify stores in Kenya. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 942 Shopify stores in Kenya are based in Nairobi County.
  • 31 Shopify stores in Kenya are based in Mombasa County.
  • 30 Shopify stores in Kenya are based in Kiambu County.

Cities With The Most Shopify Stores in Kenya

Here is the city distribution of Shopify stores in Kenya. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

  • 939 Shopify stores in Kenya are based in Nairobi.
  • 117 Shopify stores in Kenya are based in Unknown.
  • 31 Shopify stores in Kenya are based in Mombasa.

Top Shopify Apps in Kenya

Here are the top 10 apps, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopify stores in Kenya.

With a paid account on Store Leads, you'll be able to see which stores have installed specific apps. You can also see when specific apps were installed (or uninstalled) by each store.

Number of Employees for Shopify stores in Kenya

  • 96.4% of Shopify stores in Kenya have Unknown employees.
  • 1.3% of Shopify stores in Kenya have 10 - 24 employees.
  • 1.2% of Shopify stores in Kenya have 1 - 9 employees.

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in Kenya by the number of employees.

Employees
Stores
Unknown
1,153
1 - 9
14
10 - 24
15
25 - 49
2
50 - 99
5
100 - 249
3
250 - 999
2
1000 - 4999
2

Top Shipping Carriers For Shopify Stores In Kenya

  • 2.3% of Shopify stores in Kenya ship by UPS.
  • 2.0% of Shopify stores in Kenya ship by USPS.
  • 1.5% of Shopify stores in Kenya ship by Fedex.

Here are the top shipping carriers for Shopify stores in Kenya.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
UPS
28
USPS
24
Fedex
18
DHL
10
Royal Mail
4

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In Kenya

.com is the most common top-level domain, by far, for world-wide Shopify stores. Some countries have been faster than others to adopt alternate (such as country-specific) top-level domains.

  • 63.8% of Shopify stores in Kenya have a .com domain.
  • 14.3% of Shopify stores in Kenya have a .co.ke domain.
  • 8.3% of Shopify stores in Kenya have a .store domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for Shopify stores in Kenya.

Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
763
.co.ke
171
.store
99
.shop
49
.ke
21
.co
18
.africa
13
.online
12
.org
8
.world
4

Top Shopify Stores In Kenya

Here are the top stores in Kenya ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Optica
96,287
2017/12/15
Mobius Motors
157,763
2017/09/29
Shop Zetu
220,112
2019/08/23
Renewed Phones Kenya
248,978
2023/02/03
denriafricastores.com
261,097
2020/02/14

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