WooCommerce runs 47.5% of the ecommerce sites W3Techs detects and Shopify 32.3%
Share of websites using a detected ecommerce system (or of all websites, selectable), by platform, W3Techs survey of the top 10 million websites, October 2026
By Martin DejnickiUpdated Data through October 2026
Short answer
W3Techs, which surveys the top 10 million websites, found WooCommerce on 47.5% of the websites where it detects an ecommerce system and Shopify on 32.3%, retrieved October 18, 2026. PrestaShop held 2.8%, Adobe Commerce 1.6% and BigCommerce 0.6%. As shares of all websites, WooCommerce was 7.8% and Shopify 5.3%. The dataset holds no W3Techs share for Wix eCommerce or Squarespace Commerce.
WooCommerce runs 47.5% of the ecommerce sites W3Techs detects and Shopify 32.3%
Share of websites using a detected ecommerce system (or of all websites, selectable), by platform, W3Techs survey of the top 10 million websites, October 2026
Share by platform, W3Techs, October 2026: Ecommerce sites
Shopify's share in W3Techs' October 2026 survey, by base
- Ecommerce sites
- 32.3%Among websites with an ecommerce system W3Techs detects, WooCommerce runs 47.5% and Shopify 32.3%, then PrestaShop 2.8%, Adobe Commerce 1.6% and BigCommerce 0.6%, October 2026.
- All websites
- 5.3%The base here is all websites in W3Techs' survey of the top 10 million, not only ecommerce sites. WooCommerce runs 7.8% and Shopify 5.3%, then PrestaShop 0.5%, Adobe Commerce 0.3% and BigCommerce 0.1%, October 2026.
- The default base is websites using an ecommerce system W3Techs detects, among the top 10 million websites it surveys; neither base is a share of stores, sales or merchants.
- As a share of all websites in the survey, WooCommerce is 7.8%, Shopify 5.3%, PrestaShop 0.5%, Adobe Commerce 0.3% and BigCommerce 0.1%.
- Wix eCommerce and Squarespace Commerce are left out because the dataset holds no W3Techs share for them; that is not a share of zero.
- The chart shows the platforms in Deploi's dataset, not W3Techs' full list of ecommerce systems.
Source: W3Techs, Usage Statistics and Market Share of E-commerce Systems, October 2026. Read on .
The data
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Methodology
Reading the chart: WooCommerce runs 47.5% of the ecommerce sites W3Techs detects and Shopify 32.3%
- The default base is websites using an ecommerce system W3Techs detects, among the top 10 million websites it surveys; neither base is a share of stores, sales or merchants.
- As a share of all websites in the survey, WooCommerce is 7.8%, Shopify 5.3%, PrestaShop 0.5%, Adobe Commerce 0.3% and BigCommerce 0.1%.
- Wix eCommerce and Squarespace Commerce are left out because the dataset holds no W3Techs share for them; that is not a share of zero.
- The chart shows the platforms in Deploi's dataset, not W3Techs' full list of ecommerce systems.
Caveats: Ecommerce platform shares, W3Techs and HTTP Archive, 2026
- W3Techs shares are of websites using an ecommerce system W3Techs detects, among the top 10 million websites it surveys. They are not shares of stores, sales or merchants.
- HTTP Archive counts are mobile origins, websites with enough Chrome traffic to appear in the Chrome UX Report. The Adobe Commerce row is HTTP Archive's Magento detection.
- The dataset holds no W3Techs value for Wix eCommerce or Squarespace Commerce. The cells are empty, not zero.
- W3Techs values change daily; the dataset holds one reading taken on October 18, 2026, labeled October 2026.
Deploi's charts and compilation are licensed CC BY 4.0. The underlying facts belong to their sources, which are named on every page. How Deploi Shopify Data works.
Sources
Tier A sources are primary documents: filings, official releases and official price pages. How sources are ranked.
- Tier BHTTP Archive technology adoption API: BigCommerce, geo ALL, rank all ranks, from 2026-09-01 to latest
HTTP Archive · TEXT · Read on
- Tier BHTTP Archive technology adoption API: Magento, geo ALL, rank all ranks, from 2026-09-01 to latest
HTTP Archive · TEXT · Read on
- Tier BHTTP Archive technology adoption API: PrestaShop, geo ALL, rank all ranks, from 2026-09-01 to latest
HTTP Archive · TEXT · Read on
- Tier BHTTP Archive technology adoption API: Squarespace Commerce, geo ALL, rank all ranks, from 2026-09-01 to latest
HTTP Archive · TEXT · Read on
- Tier BHTTP Archive technology adoption API: Wix eCommerce, geo ALL, rank all ranks, from 2026-09-01 to latest
HTTP Archive · TEXT · Read on
- Tier BHTTP Archive technology adoption API: WooCommerce, geo ALL, rank all ranks, from 2026-09-01 to latest
HTTP Archive · TEXT · Read on
- Tier B
- Tier BUsage Statistics and Market Share of E-commerce Systems, October 2026
W3Techs (Q-Success DI Gelbmann GmbH) · HTML · Read on
Cite and reuse
Deploi's charts and compilation are licensed CC BY 4.0. The underlying facts belong to their sources, which are named on every page.
APA
Deploi. (2026). WooCommerce runs 47.5% of the ecommerce sites W3Techs detects and Shopify 32.3% (Version 1) [Chart]. https://deploi.ca/shopify/data/charts/ecommerce-platform-share-w3techs Retrieved October 18, 2026.
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- · Ecommerce platform shares, W3Techs and HTTP Archive, 2026
First release. 7 rows, 3 fields read from 8 sources; each value agreed by extractor and verifier or ruled by the judge.