The State of StoreHippo in 2023

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

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

StoreHippo Growth

At present, there are 469 live stores running on the StoreHippo platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running StoreHippo.

• StoreHippo stores increased 118.9% quarter-over-quarter in 2022 Q4.
• StoreHippo stores increased 133% year-over-year in 2022 Q4.

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

Social Media Usage On StoreHippo 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 2.1% of StoreHippo stores.
• Twitter is used by 0.2% of StoreHippo stores.
• Facebook is used by 0.2% of StoreHippo stores.

Top Categories For StoreHippo Stores

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

• 0.9% of StoreHippo stores sell Food & Drink products.
• 0.4% of StoreHippo stores sell Beauty & Fitness products.
• 0.4% of StoreHippo stores sell Health products.

Top Countries For StoreHippo Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using StoreHippo.

• 14.7% of StoreHippo stores are in India
• 1.7% of StoreHippo stores are in United States
• 0.9% of StoreHippo stores are in Australia
• 0.9% of StoreHippo stores are in Netherlands

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

Number Of Employees For StoreHippo Stores

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

• 0.6% of StoreHippo stores have 1 - 9 employees.
• 0.4% of StoreHippo stores have 10 - 24 employees.
• 0.4% of StoreHippo stores have 50 - 99 employees.

Number Of Products Sold For StoreHippo Stores

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

• 22.2% of StoreHippo stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
• 16.2% of StoreHippo stores sell 250 - 999 different products.
• 7.7% of StoreHippo stores sell 100 - 249 different products.

Top Technologies on StoreHippo Stores

We're tracking 4 different technologies that have 396 collective installs on StoreHippo stores.

• Cloudflare CDN is used by 82.1% of StoreHippo stores.
• Facebook SDK is used by 1.5% of StoreHippo stores.
• Google Adsense is used by 0.4% of StoreHippo stores.

Here are the top 4 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all StoreHippo stores.

StoreHippo Store Top-level Domain Distribution

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

• 76.3% of StoreHippo stores have a .com domain.
• 13.4% of StoreHippo stores have a .in domain.
• 1.3% of StoreHippo stores have a .shop domain.

Top StoreHippo Stores

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

New StoreHippo Stores

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

Stores Switching to StoreHippo From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, StoreHippo has taken 2 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

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

Stores Switching from StoreHippo To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, StoreHippo has lost 3 merchants to competitive platforms.

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

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• Social Media accounts
• Email address
• Phone numbers
• Country
• Third-party technologies
• Creation date
• Platform
• Top-level domains
• Domain status
• Domain type

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