The State of Volusion

Launched in 2002, Volusion is one of the oldest e-commerce platform around. While it doesn't provide the most polished front-end, it's strength lie in back-end features like inventory management and analytics.

Quarterly Growth

At present, there are 12,341 live stores running on the Volusion platform.

Here is the quarter-over-quarter growth of stores running Volusion.

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

Top Stores

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

New Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked new stores that are running Volusion.

Platform Wins

Over the last 90 days, Volusion has taken 6 merchants from competitive platforms.

Platform Win Stores

Here are the top stores won from competitive platforms.

Platform Losses

Over the last 90 days, Volusion has lost 125 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform Loss Stores

Here are the top stores lost to competitive platforms.

Category Breakdown

Here are the top 20 industry verticals for stores on Volusion.

Country Breakdown

Volusion is quite popular in the United States.

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

Social Media and Contact Info

Email and phone are the primary means of contacting merchants running on Volusion.

This is in contrast with merchants using other e-commerce platforms that have much higher usage of social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

Third-Party Technologies

Many Volusion merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Volusion App Store. We're tracking 64 different technologies that have 9,178 collective installs on Volusion stores.

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

Top-level Domain Distribution

Most Volusion stores use a .com domain. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only recently been introduced and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

Get more insights on Volusion stores

Our search interface is easy to use and helps you find the Volusion stores that are relevant to you.

You can segment stores on a variety of dimensions:

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

Filter on stores with Facebook accounts.

For more insights on Volusion stores, create a free account and have a look for yourself.