The State of Spring in 2024

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Spring usage.

• Spring growth
• Social media usage on Spring stores
• Contact information on Spring stores
• Top categories for Spring stores
• Top countries for Spring stores
• Number of employees for Spring stores
• Number of products sold for Spring stores
• Top Spring technologies
• Top Shipping Carriers used by Spring stores
• Spring store top-level domain distribution
• Top Spring stores
• New Spring stores
• Stores switching to Spring from other platforms
• Stores switching from Spring to other platforms

Spring Growth

At present, there are 35,063 live stores running on the Spring platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Spring.

• Spring stores increased 10.4% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q3.
• Spring stores increased 64% year-over-year in 2024 Q3.

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a Spring store was first created but we use a heuristic that includes historical DNS data which provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On Spring 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 26.1% of Spring stores.
• YouTube is used by 17.5% of Spring stores.
• Facebook is used by 14.5% of Spring stores.

Contact Information On Spring 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.

• 1% of Spring stores have an email on their website
• 0% of Spring stores provide a phone number on their website

Top Categories For Spring Stores

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

• 68.9% of Spring stores sell Apparel products.
• 8.3% of Spring stores sell Arts & Entertainment products.
• 2.8% of Spring stores sell People & Society products.

Top Countries For Spring Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Spring.

• 2.3% of Spring stores are in United States
• 0.3% of Spring stores are in Canada
• 0.2% of Spring stores are in United Kingdom
• 0.2% of Spring stores are in Montenegro

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

Number Of Employees For Spring Stores

Here is the breakdown of Spring stores by the number of employees.

• 99.8% of Spring stores have Unknown employees.
• 0.1% of Spring stores have 1 - 9 employees.
• 0.0% of Spring stores have 10 - 24 employees.

Number Of Products Sold For Spring Stores

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

• 32.1% of Spring stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
• 3.1% of Spring stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
• 1.2% of Spring stores sell 25 - 49 different products.

Top Technologies on Spring Stores

We're tracking 65 different technologies that have 488,718 collective installs on Spring stores.

• Google Tag Manager is used by 99.9% of Spring stores.
• Zendesk is used by 99.9% of Spring stores.
• Facebook Pixel is used by 99.8% of Spring stores.

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

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Spring Stores

• USPS is used by 0.0% of Spring stores.
• UPS is used by 0.0% of Spring stores.
• Japan Post is used by 0.0% of Spring stores.

Here are the top 4 shipping carriers across all Spring stores.

Spring Store Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for Spring 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.

• 85.8% of Spring stores have a .com domain.
• 2.7% of Spring stores have a .shop domain.
• 2.2% of Spring stores have a .org domain.

Top Spring Stores

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

New Spring Stores

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

Stores Switching to Spring From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Spring has taken 75 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

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

Stores Switching from Spring To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Spring has lost 97 merchants to competitive platforms.

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

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