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Sports stores on Shopify

Updated Mar 15 2024

There are 66,789 live Shopify stores in the Sports category.

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

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The most popular subcategories under Sports are:

  • 63.0% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell Sporting Goods products
  • 29.6% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell Individual Sports products
  • 14.7% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell Team Sports products

Here are the the top Sports subcategories by store count.

Growth of Sports Stores On Shopify

Here is the historical growth of stores on Shopify in the Sports category.

  • Shopify stores in the Sports category have increased 9.2% quarter-over-quarter in 2023 Q4.
  • Shopify stores in the Sports category have increased 34% year-over-year in 2023 Q4.
Quarter
New Active Stores
2017 Q1
1,072
2017 Q2
727
2017 Q3
835
2017 Q4
1,063
2018 Q1
1,034
2018 Q2
2,486
2018 Q3
1,303
2018 Q4
1,092
2019 Q1
1,360
2019 Q2
1,374
2019 Q3
1,370
2019 Q4
1,339
2020 Q1
1,396
2020 Q2
2,017
2020 Q3
2,118
2020 Q4
2,205
2021 Q1
2,401
2021 Q2
2,084
2021 Q3
2,188
2021 Q4
1,912
2022 Q1
1,484
2022 Q2
1,773
2022 Q3
2,834
2022 Q4
2,060
2023 Q1
2,672
2023 Q2
3,487
2023 Q3
4,253
2023 Q4
5,144
2024 Q1 (to date)
5,892
Active Store Count 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.

  • Instagram is used by 54.4% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
  • Facebook is used by 44.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
  • YouTube is used by 19.7% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
Type
Stores
Instagram
36,357
Facebook
29,981
YouTube
13,164
Twitter
10,589
Tiktok
6,217
LinkedIn
4,902
Pinterest
3,933
Facebook Group
992
WhatsApp
266
Snapchat
227
Yelp
57

Contact Information On Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

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

  • 51.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have an email on their website
  • 34.5% of Shopify stores in the Sports category provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
34,665
Phone
23,027

Top Countries For Shopify Stores In The Sports Category

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

  • 58.1% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in United States
  • 10.6% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in United Kingdom
  • 8.1% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in Australia
  • 7.7% of Shopify stores in the Sports category are in Canada
Country
Stores
38,785
5,409
5,164
1,190
608
591
512
504

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.

  • 23.4% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have installed the Product Reviews Shopify app.
  • 22.0% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have installed the Geolocation Shopify app.
  • 16.6% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have installed the Shopify Inbox Shopify app.

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 501 different technologies that have 627,623 collective installs on Shopify stores in the Sports category.

  • Cloudflare is used by 99.2% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 98.9% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
  • Arrive is used by 98.8% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.

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

Technology
Stores
66,259
66,018
45,678
45,244
42,097

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.

  • 25.1% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 17.4% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell 10 - 24 different products.
  • 13.5% of Shopify stores in the Sports category sell 25 - 49 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
16,735
10 - 24
11,633
25 - 49
8,986
50 - 99
8,071
100 - 249
8,004
250 - 999
7,577
1000 - 4999
3,688
5000 - 9999
525
10000 - 24999
300
25000 - 99999
207

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 1000 different Shopify themes. Here are the top themes.

  • The dawn theme is used by 21.4% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
  • The debut theme is used by 9.0% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
  • The venture theme is used by 4.5% of Shopify stores in the Sports category.
Theme Name
Stores
dawn
14,263
debut
6,034
venture
3,017
ride
2,832
refresh
2,825
impulse
2,381
spotlight
1,946
brooklyn
1,184
minimal
1,157
supply
935

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.

  • 74.4% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have a .com domain.
  • 4.2% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have a .com.au domain.
  • 4.0% of Shopify stores in the Sports category have a .co.uk domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
49,716
.com.au
2,813
.co.uk
2,701
.ca
1,524
.shop
1,393
.store
1,010
.co
939
.net
918
.co.nz
718
.org
526

Top Stores In The Sports Category

Here are the top 5 Sports stores ordered by worldwide store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Peloton
239
2017/09/29
DC Shoes
579
2017/10/27
Browning North America
698
2019/08/23
New Era Cap
734
2016/12/30
Benchmade
847
2016/12/30

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New Stores In The Sports Category

Here are the top 5 most recent Sports stores.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
nhpaintball.com
2,356,531
2024/03/15
Big Dawg Bats
3,038,302
2024/03/15
Wilderness Lite...the Ultralight Float Tubes
3,093,742
2024/03/15
Big Wheel Cycles
3,293,069
2024/03/15
Viaje Europa
3,428,660
2024/03/15

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