State of E-commerce 2026 · 3.97M shops analyzed

Published 2026-07-13 · 8 min read · Datenix Reports
TL;DR — We aggregate 3,966,713 online stores across 385 platforms and 237 countries. 2.79M have GMV data · 149K are cross-verified via SimilarWeb visits. 667 stores crossed $1B GMV in 2025. Shopify + WooCommerce together host 52% of the market by store count. US alone accounts for 26% of the world's online stores.

The dataset in one paragraph

Datenix's shop-intel dataset is aggregated from EcCompass (primary GMV timeline), StoreLeads (technographics), Common Crawl CDX (145K discovered subdomains across Wix / BigCommerce / Squarespace / Webflow / Ecwid / GoDaddy / Weebly / BigCartel / Podia / Notion / Framer / Carrd), Wayback Machine (30K+ myshopify), Foreplay Ad Library (14K brands via Firestore dump), Shopify Spy Toolkit CRX (47K theme_name), sellercenter.io CRX API (23K SimilarWeb-grade traffic), ShopScan.app (theme + installed apps), and Koala Amazon CRX (770K FBA products). Every row carries a source_count and a gmv_sanity label — see how we compute GMV.

GMV distribution · a heavy-tail world

GMV bracketStore count% of DBCumulative
<$100K2,050,40151.7%51.7%
$100K – $1M529,32213.3%65.0%
$1M – $10M192,0734.8%69.9%
$10M – $100M19,7250.5%70.4%
$100M – $1B2,0340.05%70.4%
>$1B6670.017%70.5%
(no GMV data)1,172,49129.5%100%

The reality: 65% of e-com stores turn over less than $1M/year, and only 1 in 6,000 stores crosses the $1B mark. The tail is where most of the count lives, but the head captures nearly all the tracked GMV ($6.84 trillion in 2025).

Top-15 by verified GMV (2025)

#DomainGMV 2025Notes
1walgreens.com$95.97BUS pharmacy + retail
2verizon.com$83.39BTelecom (e-store)
3tesla.com$55.23BDirect-to-consumer auto
4lowes.com$52.15BUS home improvement
5t-mobile.com$37.71BTelecom
6tjmaxx.tjx.com$34.53BOff-price retail
7hp.com$32.96BDirect hardware
8bestbuy.com$31.26BElectronics
9nike.com$31.17BSportswear DTC
10dollargeneral.com$25.22BDiscount retail
11t-mobile.pl$21.31BPoland telecom
12store.google.com$20.67BPixel / Nest / Fitbit
13albertsons.com$19.28BUS grocery
14target.ba$19.18BBosnia retail
15usps.com$17.30BPostal e-commerce

All 15 are gmv_sanity=verified — meaning revenue-per-visit falls within the empirical $10–$500 e-commerce range. This is why we cross-check against SimilarWeb: without it, we'd list gamestop.md at $2.2B because raw estimators mis-attribute brand-level GMV to national subdomains.

Platform share · Shopify is 27% of the tracked market

PlatformStoresShare
Shopify1,077,77627.2%
WooCommerce966,76924.4%
Custom (bespoke)378,5099.5%
Wix375,6279.5%
Squarespace102,1722.6%
Square Online70,7021.8%
Ecwid61,7701.6%
GoDaddy57,5661.5%
Bandcamp53,2641.3%
Takeaway / delivery apps52,8731.3%
Magento35,9190.9%
Other 374 platforms733,76618.5%

Long tail: Shopify + WooCommerce alone hold 51.6% of the market. But 18.5% is spread across the "other 374 platforms" — the reason we track 385 total instead of the usual "Shopify-only" panels.

Geography · US dominates but not overwhelmingly

CountryStores% of world
US1,050,22226.5%
GB (UK)231,7865.8%
AU122,2333.1%
DE120,7683.0%
CA116,2232.9%
IN110,0062.8%
BR79,1632.0%
NL76,1961.9%
FR65,9951.7%
IT61,5671.6%
Unknown / not resolved1,010,04025.5%
Rest of world (227 countries)922,51423.3%

India (110K) and Brazil (79K) confirm the shift: emerging markets host 6% of all English-indexable online stores tracked by Common Crawl. The unknown/not-resolved segment is our biggest coverage gap — these are shops without a resolvable country signal (custom TLDs, split-domain setups, or missing WHOIS).

What "cross-verified" means (149K stores)

149,433 of our 3.97M stores are marked cross_verified_2plus — meaning at least two independent sources (EcCompass GMV, StoreLeads platform hint, ShopScan theme extraction, sellercenter traffic, Foreplay ads) agree on the domain. For the top-25K by GMV we've now finished CF D1 refresh: every one of those has SimilarWeb-grade traffic + product intel + FB Ads footprint (when applicable).

The remaining 3.82M rely on a single source (usually EcCompass or Common Crawl). These are sample_tier=mid_tier / gmv_sanity=single_source and shipped in the open sample with that label — they're safe for analysis, not safe for hard revenue quoting.

Freshness

Master rebuilt 2026-07-12 05:45 UTC. Next scheduled rebuild: weekly. See the GitHub repo for the 10K free sample (top-8K by verified GMV + 2K mid-tier random) or grab the REST API to query the full 3.97M.

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