Sports stores on Shopify

Shopify stores in the Sports category have increased 10.6% quarter-over-quarter in 2021 Q2.
Shopify stores in the Sports category have increased 55% year-over-year in 2021 Q2.

2017 Q1

1,320

2017 Q2

1,008

2017 Q3

1,097

2017 Q4

1,360

2018 Q1

1,399

2018 Q2

1,666

2018 Q3

1,755

2018 Q4

1,460

2019 Q1

1,789

2019 Q2

2,106

2019 Q3

1,844

2019 Q4

2,003

2020 Q1

2,163

2020 Q2

3,211

2020 Q3

3,540

2020 Q4

4,438

2021 Q1

4,390

2021 Q2

4,611

2021 Q3 (to date)

1,998

Cumulative Stores by Quarter

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.

Social Media Usage On Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

Here are the top social media sites for Shopify stores in the Sports category.

Facebook is used by 54.3% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
Instagram is used by 53.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
Twitter is used by 21.5% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.

Facebook

27,114

Instagram

26,879

Twitter

10,709

YouTube

9,147

3,553

1,675

Facebook Group

683

Tiktok

320

Snapchat

214

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

Here are the top contact methods for Shopify stores in the Sports category.

57.4% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have an email on their website
38.2% of Shopify stores in the Sports category provide a phone number on their website

28,635

Phone

19,085

Top Countries For Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

Here are the top countries for Shopify stores in the Sports category.

59.0% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in United States
10.4% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in United Kingdom
8.3% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in Canada
7.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in Australia

29,465

5,167

4,120

3,955

863

415

397

364

358

340

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

Top Shopify Apps For Stores In The Sports Category

Here are the top Shopify apps, ordered by number of installs, across stores in the Sports category.

16.2% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have installed the Product Reviews Shopify app.
13.0% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have installed the Mailchimp Shopify app.
11.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have installed the Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS Shopify app.

Product Reviews

8,077

Mailchimp

6,482

Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS

5,920

Printful: Print on Demand

4,441

Instafeed ‑ Instagram Feed

4,034

POWr

2,696

Messenger channel

2,687

Privy ‑ Pop Ups, Email, & SMS

2,671

Judge.me Product Reviews

2,335

Oberlo ‑ Dropshipping App

2,324

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.

Top Technologies on Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

Many Shopify merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Shopify App Store.

We're tracking 249 different technologies that have 182,473 collective installs on Shopify stores in the Sports category.

Cloudflare CDN is used by 82.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
Facebook Pixel is used by 50.0% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
Google Analytics is used by 45.6% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.

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

41,365

24,939

22,775

9,261

8,180

6,904

5,920

4,441

4,427

PayPal Express Checkout

4,019

Number Of Products Sold For Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

Here is the breakdown of Shopify stores in the Sports category by the number of products that they sell.

21.1% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell 1 - 9 different products.
17.2% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell 10 - 24 different products.
13.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell 25 - 49 different products.

1 - 9

10,546

10 - 24

8,580

25 - 49

6,923

50 - 99

6,578

100 - 249

6,653

250 - 999

5,967

1000 - 4999

2,607

5000 - 9999

337

10000 - 24999

192

25000 - 99999

Top Shopify Themes For Stores In The Sports Category

Shopify has an active and extension theme store. Merchants using Shopify can use one of those pre-built theme or develop their own custom theme to meet their needs. We're currently tracking over 500 different Shopify themes. Here are the top themes.

The debut theme is used by 24.2% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
The venture theme is used by 11.7% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
The brooklyn theme is used by 5.1% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.

debut

12,094

venture

5,832

brooklyn

2,555

minimal

2,036

impulse

1,887

supply

1,698

simple

1,444

narrative

1,286

boundless

851

motion

778

Top-level Domain Distribution For Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

The majority of Shopify stores use a .com domain. 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.