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The State of Zen Cart in 2023

Updated Nov 24 2023

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

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Zen Cart Growth

At present, there are 6,792 live stores running on the Zen Cart platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Zen Cart.

Quarter
Active Stores
2023 Q4 (to date)
6,792
Active Stores by Quarter

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

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

Social Media Usage On Zen 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 11.5% of Zen Cart stores.
  • Twitter is used by 6.7% of Zen Cart stores.
  • Instagram is used by 5.7% of Zen Cart stores.
Type
Stores
Facebook
782
Twitter
453
Instagram
384
YouTube
267
Pinterest
227
WhatsApp
156
LinkedIn
76
Facebook Group
23
Tiktok
15
Yelp
5
Snapchat
2

Contact Information On Zen 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.

  • 23% of Zen Cart stores provide a phone number on their website
  • 14% of Zen Cart stores have an email on their website
Type
Stores
Phone
1,561
Email
957

Top Categories For Zen Cart Stores

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

  • 30.5% of Zen Cart stores sell Apparel products.
  • 7.0% of Zen Cart stores sell Home & Garden products.
  • 5.8% of Zen Cart stores sell Sports products.

Top Countries For Zen Cart Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Zen Cart.

  • 9.5% of Zen Cart stores are in United States
  • 3.9% of Zen Cart stores are in United Kingdom
  • 3.0% of Zen Cart stores are in Japan
  • 2.7% of Zen Cart stores are in China
Country
Stores
201
183
117
83
82

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

Number Of Employees For Zen Cart Stores

Here is the breakdown of Zen Cart stores by the number of employees.

  • 99.2% of Zen Cart stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.4% of Zen Cart stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.2% of Zen Cart stores have 50 - 99 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
6,736
1 - 9
30
10 - 24
5
25 - 49
2
50 - 99
14
100 - 249
3
250 - 999
1
5000+
1

Number Of Products Sold For Zen Cart Stores

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

  • 10.8% of Zen Cart stores sell 250 - 999 different products.
  • 8.0% of Zen Cart stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
  • 7.7% of Zen Cart stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
524
10 - 24
191
25 - 49
272
50 - 99
99
100 - 249
545
250 - 999
732
1000 - 4999
316
5000 - 9999
77
10000 - 24999
49
25000 - 99999
20

Top Technologies on Zen Cart Stores

We're tracking 111 different technologies that have 13,310 collective installs on Zen Cart stores.

  • Cloudflare is used by 46.1% of Zen Cart stores.
  • Cloudflare CDN is used by 45.6% of Zen Cart stores.
  • Google Adsense is used by 14.9% of Zen Cart stores.

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

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Zen Cart Stores

  • UPS is used by 5.4% of Zen Cart stores.
  • Fedex is used by 2.4% of Zen Cart stores.
  • USPS is used by 2.3% of Zen Cart stores.

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

Shipping Carrier
Stores
UPS
370
Fedex
162
USPS
153
China Post
54
Royal Mail
52
Canada Post
21
DHL
20
Australia Post
18
TNT
7
Japan Post
5

Zen Cart Store Top-level Domain Distribution

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

  • 50.0% of Zen Cart stores have a .com domain.
  • 6.9% of Zen Cart stores have a .shop domain.
  • 4.1% of Zen Cart stores have a .life domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
3,397
.shop
466
.life
277
.live
268
.top
262
.xyz
256
.co.uk
218
.net
170
.ru
106
.com.au
98

Top Zen Cart Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
LeatherCult
4,926
2016/12/30
SD Truck Springs
12,708
2016/12/30
Shannon Fabrics
12,777
2016/12/30
Whole Blossoms
15,772
2016/12/30
Big Z Fabric
16,122
2016/12/30

New Zen Cart Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
www.steinschleifmaschinen.at
1,038,815
2023/11/24
Civil Laser
1,669,339
2023/11/24
BF1 US
1,864,564
2023/11/24
pl.owner-manuals.com
1,910,100
2023/11/24
stephenchastain.com
2,176,278
2023/11/24

Stores Switching to Zen Cart From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Zen Cart has taken 3,429 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores
3,408

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
LeatherCult
4,926
Custom Cart
2023/10/17
Shannon Fabrics
12,777
Custom Cart
2023/10/18
Whole Blossoms
15,772
Custom Cart
2023/10/18
Big Z Fabric
16,122
Custom Cart
2023/10/18
Model Rockets & How
17,522
Custom Cart
2023/10/24

Stores Switching from Zen Cart To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Zen Cart has lost 44 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform
Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
Outdoor King
190,176
Custom Cart
2023/11/06
www.frontieradelwest.com
581,226
OpenCart
2023/11/06
Megalodon Teeth
830,143
Shopify
2023/11/02
askari-minis.com
1,095,465
WooCommerce
2023/11/20
Wholesale Electronics
1,496,852
Custom Cart
2023/11/20

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