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The State of Spring in 2023

Updated Mar 24 2023

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

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Spring Growth

At present, there are 33,607 live stores running on the Spring platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Spring.

  • Spring stores increased 14.6% quarter-over-quarter in 2022 Q4.
  • Spring stores increased 429% year-over-year in 2022 Q4.
Quarter
New Active Stores
2017 Q1
3
2017 Q2
10
2017 Q3
3
2017 Q4
2
2018 Q1
15
2018 Q2
128
2018 Q3
87
2018 Q4
50
2019 Q1
59
2019 Q2
73
2019 Q3
60
2019 Q4
72
2020 Q1
69
2020 Q2
89
2020 Q3
66
2020 Q4
110
2021 Q1
466
2021 Q2
2,572
2021 Q3
1,401
2021 Q4
356
2022 Q1
137
2022 Q2
11,779
2022 Q3
8,738
2022 Q4
3,854
2023 Q1 (to date)
3,391
Cumulative Stores by Quarter

It's hard to know exactly when a Spring store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that 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.

  • LinkedIn is used by 0.1% of Spring stores.
  • Instagram is used by 0.0% of Spring stores.
  • Facebook is used by 0.0% of Spring stores.
Type
Stores
LinkedIn
39
Instagram
9
Facebook
6
Twitter
3

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.

  • 0% of Spring stores have an email on their website
  • 0% of Spring stores provide a phone number on their website
Type
Stores
Email
5
Phone
5

Top Categories For Spring Stores

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

  • 0.3% of Spring stores sell Apparel products.
  • 0.1% of Spring stores sell Arts & Entertainment products.
  • 0.1% of Spring stores sell People & Society products.

Top Countries For Spring Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Spring.

  • 0.5% of Spring stores are in United States
  • 0.3% of Spring stores are in Montenegro
  • 0.2% of Spring stores are in Canada
  • 0.1% of Spring stores are in Tokelau
Country
Stores
82
40
34
24
20

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Number Of Employees For Spring Stores

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

  • 0.1% of Spring stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.0% of Spring stores have 10 - 24 employees.
  • 0.0% of Spring stores have 25 - 49 employees.
Employees
Stores
1 - 9
39
10 - 24
15
25 - 49
13
50 - 99
6
100 - 249
10
250 - 999
8
1000 - 4999
2
5000+
3

Number Of Products Sold For Spring Stores

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

  • 51.6% of Spring stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 5.1% of Spring stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
  • 1.5% of Spring stores sell 25 - 49 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
17,355
10 - 24
1,698
25 - 49
520
50 - 99
50
100 - 249
182
250 - 999
225
1000 - 4999
187
5000 - 9999
183
10000 - 24999
25
250000+
30

Top Technologies on Spring Stores

We're tracking 16 different technologies that have 20,978 collective installs on Spring stores.

  • Cloudfront CDN is used by 61.5% of Spring stores.
  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 0.5% of Spring stores.
  • Gatsby.js is used by 0.1% of Spring stores.

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

  • 75.5% of Spring stores have a .com domain.
  • 4.7% of Spring stores have a .store domain.
  • 4.5% of Spring stores have a .shop domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
25,358
.store
1,565
.shop
1,500
.org
1,020
.net
931
.co
458
.art
399
.online
337
.clothing
165
.us
158

Top Spring Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
www.monkeytype.store
95,171
2022/05/20
sodapoppin.shop
109,046
2021/02/19
www.freshfitpodcaststore.com
112,146
2021/08/06
aumsum.com
161,525
2021/04/23
epicmealtime.com
174,328
2016/12/30

New Spring Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
shop.cccareers.org
2,099,765
2023/03/24
merch.bioparksociety.org
3,479,424
2023/03/24
shop.andrewwtate.com
5,744,173
2023/03/24
www.cauzcreations.com
5,992,176
2023/03/24
www.awkwardbonerdesign.com
6,020,352
2023/03/24

Stores Switching to Spring From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Spring has taken 88 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
store.strength-and-power-for-volleyball.com
1,385,766
Shopify
2023/01/08
www.bwusu.com
2,257,836
Ecwid
2023/01/03
www.godbegoddin.com
2,299,025
Shopify
2023/02/03
store.aethempress.com
2,904,133
Shopify
2023/01/11
store.stoicismpod.com
2,904,285
Shopify
2023/01/11

Stores Switching from Spring To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Spring has lost 160 merchants to competitive platforms.

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

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
moriahelizabethmerch.com
50,648
Shopify
2023/01/23
Marco Sweets & Spices
114,042
Shopify
2023/03/10
Tested
131,107
Custom Cart
2023/01/10
darkovakrabicka.cz
183,899
Shopify
2023/02/27
flatlisteyewear.com
251,306
Shopify
2023/01/03

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