Shopify vs X-Cart
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Shopify · X-Cart · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
36
1
Open Page Rank 8+
361
2
Open Page Rank 7+
1,434
2
Open Page Rank 6+
3,004
5
Open Page Rank 5+
6,078
6
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Shopify · X-Cart · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
233,179
577
United Kingdom
83,178
157
India
76,557
81
Canada
65,017
155
Germany
56,631
44
Australia
55,351
81
France
48,734
40
Italy
35,950
39
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Shopify | X-Cart |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 900 ms |
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.
X-Cart to Shopify
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| cuttingedgecreations.com | May 2026 |
| microfasteners.com | Jan 2026 |
| energeticnutrition.com | Oct 2025 |