Is WooCommerce shrinking and is Shopify closing the gap?

Is WooCommerce shrinking?

HTTP Archive detected WooCommerce on 553,677 mobile origins in its September 2026 crawl, down from 655,994 in January 2024, the highest of the crawls shown, and lower in each January and July crawl since. The count had risen from 144,155 in January 2020. Origins are websites with enough Chrome traffic to be measured, not stores.

Is Shopify closing the gap on WooCommerce?

The gap between WooCommerce and Shopify narrowed from 310,129 mobile origins in January 2024 to 101,407 in September 2026, computed by Deploi from HTTP Archive's adoption data. Shopify rose from 345,865 to 452,270 origins while WooCommerce fell from 655,994 to 553,677. WooCommerce still has more detected origins than Shopify.

How much larger was WooCommerce than Shopify before?

WooCommerce had 2.4 times as many detected mobile origins as Shopify in January 2020 (144,155 against 60,749) and 1.2 times as many in September 2026 (553,677 against 452,270), computed by Deploi from HTTP Archive's adoption API. The ratio fell because Shopify grew faster than WooCommerce up to January 2024 and kept rising across the crawls shown after WooCommerce's January 2024 high.

Do desktop counts show the same pattern?

HTTP Archive's desktop counts move in the same direction as mobile, with WooCommerce falling from 425,503 origins in January 2024 to 337,099 in September 2026 while Shopify rose from 263,555 to 317,646. The desktop gap narrowed from 161,948 to 19,453 origins, computed by Deploi. Desktop and mobile origins are separate counts.

What does an origin count measure?

An origin in HTTP Archive's Tech Report is a website with enough Chrome traffic to appear in the Chrome UX Report, and the September 2026 counts of 553,677 for WooCommerce and 452,270 for Shopify are origins where the platform is detected. They are not counts of stores, merchants or sales, and detection changes between crawls can move the series.

The data

Each chart on this page is drawn from the numbers below. Units are in the column headers.

Sources

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.

Deploi. (2026). Is WooCommerce shrinking and is Shopify closing the gap? [Web page]. https://deploi.ca/shopify/data/woocommerce-vs-shopify-sites Retrieved October 18, 2026.

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• Are enterprise sites moving off Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud and SAP to Shopify?

  Shopify is the only one of six platforms that grew among the top 100,000 sites between January 2022 and September 2026, reaching 1,830 origins, per HTTP Archive. Updated October 18, 2026.

• Do Wix and Squarespace stores stay small compared with Shopify stores?

  10.6% of Shopify sites rank in the top 1 million by Chrome traffic, against 0.4% of Wix eCommerce and 0.5% of Squarespace Commerce sites, per HTTP Archive. Updated October 18, 2026.

• How big is Global-e's cross-border business and how much of its growth depends on Shopify Managed Markets?

  Global-e's gross merchandise value reached $6,569 million in 2025, up from $3,557 million in 2023; the dataset does not split GMV by merchant platform. Updated October 18, 2026.

• How large is BigCommerce (Commerce.com) compared with Shopify, and is its enterprise base growing?

  Commerce.com, formerly BigCommerce, reported gross merchandise volume (GMV) of $31,696 million for fiscal 2025, and Shopify's $378,441 million was 11.9 times as large, computed by Deploi, while HTTP Archive detected BigCommerce on fewer sites each year. Updated October 18, 2026.

• How large is Shopify next to Etsy, eBay, Amazon's third-party sellers and Squarespace, in sales volume?

  Shopify's 2025 gross merchandise volume (GMV) was $378,441 million, 4.8 times eBay's GMV of $79,609 million and 36 times the $10,460.7 million of gross merchandise sales (GMS) on Etsy's marketplace, computed by Deploi. Updated October 18, 2026.

• How many live Shopify sites are there, measured independently of Shopify?

  HTTP Archive detected Shopify on 452,270 mobile origins in September 2026, up from 60,749 in January 2020. The count covers sites with Chrome traffic, not merchants. Updated October 18, 2026.

Changes

1. October 18, 2026 · Shopify and WooCommerce origins detected by HTTP Archive, January 2020 to September 2026
   First published.