The State of X-Cart in 2026

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on X-Cart usage.

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

X-Cart Growth

At present, there are 479 live stores running on the X-Cart platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running X-Cart.

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

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

Social Media Usage On X-Cart 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.

• Facebook is used by 35.7% of X-Cart stores.
• Instagram is used by 28.6% of X-Cart stores.
• Twitter is used by 17.1% of X-Cart stores.

Contact Information On X-Cart 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.

• 75% of X-Cart stores provide a phone number on their website
• 71% of X-Cart stores have an email on their website

Top Categories For X-Cart Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on X-Cart.

• 19.6% of X-Cart stores sell Autos & Vehicles products.
• 13.8% of X-Cart stores sell Home & Garden products.
• 8.8% of X-Cart stores sell Computers products.
• 8.4% of X-Cart stores sell Business & Industrial products.

Top Countries For X-Cart Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using X-Cart.

• 33.6% of X-Cart stores are in United States
• 9.0% of X-Cart stores are in United Kingdom
• 6.5% of X-Cart stores are in Canada
• 4.6% of X-Cart stores are in Australia

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

Number Of Employees For X-Cart Stores

Here is the breakdown of X-Cart stores by the number of employees.

• 90.0% of X-Cart stores have Unknown employees.
• 6.9% of X-Cart stores have 1 - 9 employees.
• 1.7% of X-Cart stores have 10 - 24 employees.

Number Of Products Sold For X-Cart Stores

Here is the breakdown of X-Cart stores by the number of products that they sell.

• 22.8% of X-Cart stores sell 250 - 999 different products.
• 15.0% of X-Cart stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
• 14.4% of X-Cart stores sell 1000 - 4999 different products.

Top Technologies on X-Cart Stores

We're tracking 110 different technologies that have 2,955 collective installs on X-Cart stores.

• Google Analytics is used by 61.4% of X-Cart stores.
• Google Tag Manager is used by 48.6% of X-Cart stores.
• Cloudflare is used by 47.4% of X-Cart stores.

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

Top Shipping Carriers Used By X-Cart Stores

• UPS is used by 28.0% of X-Cart stores.
• USPS is used by 24.2% of X-Cart stores.
• Fedex is used by 18.4% of X-Cart stores.

Here are the top 10 shipping carriers across all X-Cart stores.

X-Cart Store Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for X-Cart 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.

• 71.6% of X-Cart stores have a .com domain.
• 7.7% of X-Cart stores have a .co.uk domain.
• 4.4% of X-Cart stores have a .com.au domain.

Top X-Cart Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by X-Cart, ordered by store rank.

New X-Cart Stores

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

Stores Switching to X-Cart From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, X-Cart has taken 6 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Here are the top stores that have switched to X-Cart from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Stores Switching from X-Cart To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, X-Cart has lost 1 merchants to competitive platforms.

Here are the top X-Cart stores that have recently changed to a competitive platform.

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