WooCommerce in numbers 2025

The WooCommerce market in numbers

Data from over 4.5 million active stores: growth, countries, categories and tools. We connect a WooCommerce store to CallBotAgent together with you, and the assistant calls your customers after checkout.

4.53M+

Active WooCommerce stores

-1.5%

Growth in the last quarter

200+

Countries with stores

37.6%

Of stores use Instagram

About WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an open-source store plugin for WordPress. It launched in 2011 and now runs stores of every size, from one-person shops to large brands.

Your store, your rules

The store runs on WordPress, so you keep full control and can change almost anything.

Grows with the store

It works with a handful of products and with a large catalogue and thousands of orders.

A plugin for everything

A huge library of plugins, themes and integrations built by the community.

How WooCommerce has grown

From 1.4M stores in 2020 to over 4.5M today. Store numbers have recently levelled off.

Active stores by quarter

2020 Q12020 Q32021 Q12021 Q32022 Q12022 Q32023 Q12023 Q32024 Q12024 Q32025 Q12025 Q301500000300000045000006000000

-1.5%

Quarter to quarter

Q2 2025 vs Q1 2025

-4.0%

Year to year

Q2 2025 vs Q2 2024

+216%

Growth over 5 years

2020 Q1 to 2025 Q3

Top store categories

Home & Garden, Apparel and Business & Industrial lead the way.

Split by category

Home & GardenApparelBusiness & IndustrialFood & DrinkPeople & SocietyBeauty & FitnessHealthArts & Entertainment0150000300000450000600000

Home & Garden

479,062 stores

10.6%

Apparel

423,973 stores

9.3%

Business & Industrial

332,406 stores

7.3%

Food & Drink

321,510 stores

7.1%

People & Society

253,923 stores

5.6%

Beauty & Fitness

249,426 stores

5.5%

Health

237,547 stores

5.2%

Arts & Entertainment

192,081 stores

4.2%

Jobs & Education

181,114 stores

4%

Computers

167,225 stores

3.7%

Where WooCommerce stores are

The US leads with 8.7% of stores, but the rest spread evenly across Europe, Asia and other continents.

Countries with the most stores

United States394,587 stores
8.7%
United Kingdom153,322 stores
3.4%
India138,985 stores
3.1%
Germany111,194 stores
2.5%
Netherlands105,070 stores
2.3%
Italy104,615 stores
2.3%
France104,180 stores
2.3%
Brazil100,046 stores
2.2%
Spain96,496 stores
2.1%

Regions at a glance

🇺🇸 North America

The US leads with 8.7% of stores. Most use .com domains and tend to be larger businesses.

🇪🇺 Europe

The largest markets are the UK (3.4%), Germany (2.5%), the Netherlands (2.3%), Italy (2.3%) and France (2.3%).

🌏 Asia-Pacific

India holds 3.1% of stores, showing fast uptake in emerging markets.

🌎 Latin America

Brazil leads with 2.2% of stores and keeps growing.

Social media and marketing

Stores most often run profiles on Instagram and Facebook. That is where they talk to customers.

What stores use

Contact details on the site

Phone number listed
55%
Email address listed
55%

Over 2.5M stores list a phone number and 2.4M list an email address.

Instagram

1,705,791 stores

37.6%

Facebook

1,563,151 stores

34.5%

YouTube

572,164 stores

12.6%

Twitter

434,490 stores

9.6%

LinkedIn

330,274 stores

7.3%

WhatsApp

327,427 stores

7.2%

Tools and integrations

WordPress is the base. On top of it come stats, marketing tools and payments.

Most used tools

WordPress4,293,374 installs
94.7%
Google Tag Manager1,638,371 installs
36.1%
Yoast1,564,266 installs
34.5%
Google AdSense1,561,270 installs
34.4%
Google Ads Pixel1,544,973 installs
34.1%
Google Analytics1,130,388 installs
24.9%
Facebook Pixel1,074,092 installs
23.7%
reCAPTCHA1,043,713 installs
23%

Top WooCommerce plugins

Mailchimp251,021 installs
5.5%
WooPayments102,796 installs
2.3%
WooCommerce Subscriptions48,025 installs
1.1%
PayPal Payments43,601 installs
1%
Square31,292 installs
0.7%
WooCommerce Memberships22,692 installs
0.5%
TIV Multi-Currency15,771 installs
0.3%
WooCommerce Bookings14,827 installs
0.3%

What the data shows

Stats and tracking

Google Tag Manager runs on 36.1% of stores, Google Analytics on 24.9% and Facebook Pixel on 23.7%.

SEO and ads

Yoast SEO runs on 34.5% of stores. Google AdSense (34.4%) and Google Ads Pixel (34.1%) handle ads.

Security and speed

reCAPTCHA protects 23% of stores from spam, and Cloudflare (14.5%) speeds up and secures the site.

Store size and product counts

Most stores are small or mid-sized businesses. 27.2% sell 1 to 9 products.

Products per store

1-910-2425-4950-99250-9995000+035000070000010500001400000

Store sizes

Small catalogues (1-24 products)

36.1% of stores sell a narrow range. These are usually boutiques and single-speciality businesses.

Medium catalogues (25-999 products)

19.6% offer a mid-sized range. These are established stores that keep growing.

Large catalogues (1,000 products and up)

2.3% run an extensive catalogue. These are the stores with the highest order volumes.

27.2%

Sell 1 to 9 products

98.5%

Are small businesses

UPS

Most used carrier (1.8%)

Who moves to WooCommerce and who leaves

Merchants move to WooCommerce and away from it. The market keeps shifting.

Moving to WooCommerce

Over the last 90 days: 18,478 merchants switched to WooCommerce

Custom Cart
7,698
Shopify
3,979
Wix
2,282
PrestaShop
738
Squarespace
581
OpenCart
545

Leaving WooCommerce

Over the last 90 days: 21,029 merchants switched from WooCommerce

Shopify
8,763
Custom Cart
7,437
OpenCart
669
Wix
656
Tiendanube
437
Odoo
365

The balance of moves

Why they come

  • • Store in the same place as the WordPress site
  • • Open code and lower costs
  • • Plenty of room to customise
  • • No monthly platform fee

Why they leave

  • • Managed hosting and less upkeep
  • • Simpler setup and daily work
  • • More built-in features, fewer plugins
  • • Support and reliability for large stores

Store domains

Merchants pick .com most often. Store-specific endings such as .shop are catching on.

Most common domain endings

What the domains show

.com leads

Almost half of WooCommerce stores (48.5%) use a .com domain. It is still the most recognised ending.

Store domains

2.4% of stores use a .shop domain.

Country domains

Domains like .co.uk (2.3%), .de (2.2%) and .com.br (2.0%) point to strong local markets.

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