Shopify Statistics 2026 - Market Share, Apps & More
How many stores run Shopify, which apps and themes they actually use, and how it stacks up against WooCommerce, Magento, and the rest — based on live detections across our own crawl, not survey data.
Where Shopify stores rank
Rank distribution of the 273,495 Shopify sites in our crawl, bucketed by global rank tier.
Only 0.6% of Shopify stores crack the global top 10,000 — the platform's strength is long-tail, independent brands rather than a handful of mega-stores.
Top domains (TLDs) for Shopify stores
Shopify stores span 515 distinct top-level domains. .com dominates, but country-code TLDs like .uk, .au, .de, and .ca show where Shopify's international footprint is strongest.
Most-used Shopify apps & integrations
The 20 most-detected third-party tools running on Shopify storefronts, excluding generic web infrastructure (CDNs, CAPTCHAs, JS libraries).
App category adoption
Figures are tool detections, not unique stores — a single store can (and often does) run more than one app in a category.
Shopify theme usage
Dawn, Shopify's free default theme introduced with Online Store 2.0, is detected far more than any paid theme — a sign that most stores stay on the default rather than buying a premium theme.
Language distribution
Primary page language detected across Shopify storefronts.
Methodology & data notes
How this data is collected
TechPeeker crawls and fingerprints websites directly, looking for Shopify-specific markers — CDN hostnames, theme asset paths, storefront API calls, and checkout patterns — rather than relying on self-reported survey data. Every number on this page comes from that live dataset of 17,473,804 sites, snapshotted August 31, 2026.
Limitations
Coverage is a large sample of the web, not a full census, so shares should be read as directional rather than exact. App and theme detections rely on visible front-end signatures, so back-office-only tools (with no storefront footprint) aren't captured.
Download the Full Shopify Store List
Get all 273,495 Shopify stores behind these numbers as a clean CSV export — filterable by app, theme, TLD, and traffic rank.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Shopify's usage and market share
How many Shopify stores are there?+
We've detected 273,495 live Shopify storefronts across a crawl of 17,473,804 websites. That's roughly 1.6% of all sites we've crawled, and only covers sites we've actually visited, so the true figure globally is higher.
What is Shopify's market share vs. WooCommerce?+
Among dedicated e-commerce platforms we detect, WooCommerce accounts for about 88.5% and Shopify about 9.8%. WooCommerce's volume is driven largely by how widespread WordPress itself is; Shopify remains the clear #2 dedicated platform, ahead of Magento, PrestaShop, BigCommerce, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud combined.
What's the most popular Shopify app?+
Excluding generic web infrastructure, Klaviyo (email/SMS marketing) is the single most-detected third-party app on Shopify storefronts, followed closely by Judge.me for reviews and Shop Pay for accelerated checkout.
What Shopify theme do most stores use?+
Dawn, Shopify's free default Online Store 2.0 theme, is detected on 42,081 stores in our dataset — several times more than any single paid theme, suggesting most stores never move off the default.
Where does this data come from?+
It's derived from TechPeeker's own crawl and technology-fingerprinting engine, not a survey. See the Methodology section above for details on coverage and limitations.