WooCommerce Stores in the United Kingdom

There are 182,038 live WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.

• WooCommerce growth in the United Kingdom
• Top categories for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Social media usage on WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Contact information on WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Countries with the most WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Cities with the most WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Top WooCommerce apps in the United Kingdom
• Number of employees for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Top shipping carriers for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Top-level domain distribution for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom
• Top WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom

WooCommerce Growth in the United Kingdom

• WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom increased 7.9% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q1.
• WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom increased 41% year-over-year in 2024 Q1.

Here is WooCommerce's quarter-over-quarter growth in the United Kingdom.

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

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

Top Categories For WooCommerce Stores In the United Kingdom

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.

• 13.8% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom sell Home & Garden products.
• 7.7% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom sell Food & Drink products.
• 6.9% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom sell Apparel products.

Social Media Usage On WooCommerce Stores In the United Kingdom

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.

• Facebook is used by 50.7% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.
• Instagram is used by 43.4% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.
• Twitter is used by 28.2% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.

Contact Information On WooCommerce Stores In the United Kingdom

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

• 65% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom provide a phone number on their website
• 62% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom have an email on their website

Countries With The Most WooCommerce Stores In the United Kingdom

It's relatively easy to identify the country in which an ecommerce store operates. However, very few ecommerce stores provide a location to the country-level or city-level and even fewer provide a street address.

Here is the country distribution of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

• 36,213 WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom are based in England.
• 2,709 WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom are based in Scotland.
• 1,505 WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom are based in Wales.

Cities With The Most WooCommerce Stores in the United Kingdom

Here is the city distribution of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom. Note that we're only showing the top 15 locations here but you can see the full list within Store Leads.

• 148,802 WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom are based in Unknown.
• 7,992 WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom are based in London.
• 926 WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom are based in Manchester.

Top WooCommerce Apps in the United Kingdom

Here are the top 10 apps, ordered by number of installs, across all WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.

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.

Number of Employees for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom

• 97.3% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom have Unknown employees.
• 1.5% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom have 1 - 9 employees.
• 0.5% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom have 10 - 24 employees.

Here is the breakdown of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom by the number of employees.

Top Shipping Carriers For WooCommerce Stores In the United Kingdom

• 9.2% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom ship by Royal Mail.
• 1.6% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom ship by UPS.
• 1.0% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom ship by Fedex.

Here are the top shipping carriers for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.

Top-level Domain Distribution For WooCommerce Stores In the United Kingdom

.com is the most common top-level domain, by far, for world-wide WooCommerce stores. Some countries have been faster than others to adopt alternate (such as country-specific) top-level domains.

• 67.4% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom have a .co.uk domain.
• 21.3% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom have a .com domain.
• 3.9% of WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom have a .uk domain.

Here is the top-level domain distribution for WooCommerce stores in the United Kingdom.

Top WooCommerce Stores In the United Kingdom

Here are the top stores in the United Kingdom ordered by worldwide store rank.

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