BigCommerce vs Shopify

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

BigCommerce · Shopify · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

BigCommerce · Shopify · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 13,980

233,179

United Kingdom 2,757

83,178

India 1,881

76,557

Canada 3,223

65,017

Germany 935

56,631

Australia 2,176

55,351

France 866

48,734

Italy 723

35,950

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All BigCommerce sites · All Shopify sites