# State of Shopify 2026

> App adoption rates, theme trends, pixel usage, tech stack gaps, and store demographics from real store analysis. Updated daily.

Canonical HTML: https://storeinspect.com/report/state-of-shopify
Machine-readable JSON: https://storeinspect.com/report/state-of-shopify/stats.json
Last updated: 2026-09-02T23:32:10.207Z

## Summary

- Total Stores: 1,122,449
- Avg Apps Per Store: 5.4
- Avg Pixels Per Store: 5.7
- Median Product Count: 57
- Avg Product Count: 1,335
- Avg Collection Count: 47
- Median Product Price: 51
- Stores With Zero Pixels Percentage: 0.1
- Total Unique Apps Detected: 2,281
- Total Unique Themes: 39,532

## Interpretation

Use it to benchmark Shopify adoption, app depth, tracking coverage, and category mix before building prospect lists.

Visible apps, pixels, themes, payment methods, and other storefront technologies are detected from public storefront signals. A missing detection does not prove that a store does not use a server-side or obscured technology.

## Citation

State of Shopify 2026. StoreInspect. https://storeinspect.com/report/state-of-shopify

Free to cite with attribution. Link back to source.

## Complete machine-readable data

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    "avgProductCount": 1335,
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    "medianProductPrice": 51,
    "storesWithZeroPixelsPercentage": 0.1,
    "totalUniqueAppsDetected": 2281,
    "totalUniqueThemes": 39532
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      "name": "Cart Drawer",
      "adoptionPercentage": 24,
      "storeCount": 269716
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    {
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      "adoptionPercentage": 18,
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      "name": "Klaviyo",
      "adoptionPercentage": 16.7,
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      "adoptionPercentage": 8,
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    },
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      "name": "Instafeed (Mintt)",
      "adoptionPercentage": 6.8,
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    {
      "name": "Auto Currency Switcher",
      "adoptionPercentage": 6.2,
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    {
      "name": "Retention.com",
      "adoptionPercentage": 5.5,
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      "name": "Inbox",
      "adoptionPercentage": 5.3,
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    {
      "name": "WhatsApp Business Chat",
      "adoptionPercentage": 5,
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    {
      "name": "PushOwl",
      "adoptionPercentage": 3.8,
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    {
      "name": "PageFly",
      "adoptionPercentage": 3.6,
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    {
      "name": "Loox Reviews",
      "adoptionPercentage": 3.4,
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    {
      "name": "Free Shipping Bar",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.9,
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    },
    {
      "name": "Smile.io Loyalty",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.8,
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    {
      "name": "Ada",
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    {
      "name": "Omnisend",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.7,
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    {
      "name": "Foursixty",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.5,
      "storeCount": 28589
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    {
      "name": "Microsoft Clarity",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.5,
      "storeCount": 28534
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    {
      "name": "Printful",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.4,
      "storeCount": 27306
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    {
      "name": "Drip",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.4,
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      "name": "Dawn",
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    {
      "name": "Debut",
      "adoptionPercentage": 6.4,
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    {
      "name": "Horizon",
      "adoptionPercentage": 4.4,
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    {
      "name": "Prestige",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.6,
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    {
      "name": "Craft",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.3,
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    {
      "name": "Impulse",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.2,
      "storeCount": 25188
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    {
      "name": "Spotlight",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.2,
      "storeCount": 24590
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    {
      "name": "Refresh",
      "adoptionPercentage": 2.2,
      "storeCount": 24174
    },
    {
      "name": "Sense",
      "adoptionPercentage": 1.6,
      "storeCount": 17588
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    {
      "name": "Studio",
      "adoptionPercentage": 1.4,
      "storeCount": 15909
    },
    {
      "name": "Minimal",
      "adoptionPercentage": 1.2,
      "storeCount": 13866
    },
    {
      "name": "Brooklyn",
      "adoptionPercentage": 1.2,
      "storeCount": 13113
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    {
      "name": "Ella",
      "adoptionPercentage": 1.1,
      "storeCount": 12517
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    {
      "name": "Symmetry",
      "adoptionPercentage": 1,
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    {
      "name": "Venture",
      "adoptionPercentage": 1,
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    {
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    {
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    {
      "name": "Yahoo Advertising",
      "adoptionPercentage": 60.6,
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    {
      "name": "Triton Digital",
      "adoptionPercentage": 60.3,
      "storeCount": 676481
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Tag Manager",
      "adoptionPercentage": 39.2,
      "storeCount": 439450
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Ads",
      "adoptionPercentage": 27.1,
      "storeCount": 303518
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Merchant Center",
      "adoptionPercentage": 23.3,
      "storeCount": 261623
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Analytics (Universal)",
      "adoptionPercentage": 23.2,
      "storeCount": 260621
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    {
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      "adoptionPercentage": 16.7,
      "storeCount": 187074
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    {
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    {
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      "adoptionPercentage": 9.6,
      "storeCount": 107669
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    {
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      "adoptionPercentage": 8.7,
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      "name": "Sentry",
      "adoptionPercentage": 4.5,
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      "name": "Microsoft Ads (Bing)",
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    {
      "country": "GB",
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    {
      "country": "CA",
      "storeCount": 51918
    },
    {
      "country": "AU",
      "storeCount": 47526
    },
    {
      "country": "DE",
      "storeCount": 34632
    },
    {
      "country": "FR",
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    },
    {
      "country": "IN",
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    },
    {
      "country": "JP",
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    },
    {
      "country": "IT",
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    },
    {
      "country": "NL",
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    {
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    {
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    {
      "name": "Jewelry",
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    {
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    },
    {
      "name": "Other",
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      "name": "Outdoor & Adventure",
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    "avgAdsPerAdvertiser": 837
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}
```