Shopify vs Zen Cart
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Shopify · Zen Cart · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
36
0
Open Page Rank 8+
361
1
Open Page Rank 7+
1,434
1
Open Page Rank 6+
3,004
1
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 · Zen Cart · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
233,179
511
United Kingdom
83,178
198
India
76,557
54
Canada
65,017
110
Germany
56,631
47
Australia
55,351
75
France
48,734
49
Italy
35,950
78
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Shopify | Zen Cart |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 700 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.
Zen Cart to Shopify
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| snakeriveraudio.com | Jun 2026 |