Is Big Cartel or BigCommerce more popular?

BigCommerce is used by more websites in our catalog: 292 use Big Cartel and 8,248 use BigCommerce.

Does Big Cartel or BigCommerce have higher-authority sites?

Big Cartel sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Big Cartel: 27, BigCommerce: 17).

Is Big Cartel or BigCommerce growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Big Cartel went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while BigCommerce went from 1.3% to 0.94%. Big Cartel is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Big Cartel and BigCommerce?

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Big Cartel and BigCommerce are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Big Cartel vs BigCommerce data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Big Cartel vs BigCommerce — Site Stats Database

Big Cartel vs BigCommerce

A side-by-side comparison of two content management systems, based on the 515,058 CMS sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Big Cartel	BigCommerce
Websites	292	8,248
Market share	0.06%	1.6%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.33%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#65	#9

Median DR	27	17

Average DR	29	20

Median keywords	485	1,435

Median referring domains	317	189

Median domain age	13 yrs	17 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	17 yrs

Average monthly traffic	22,442	41,104

Combined monthly traffic	6,553,058	339,026,760

kentuckytourism.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords58,860
Referring Domains7,449
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,770,649
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBig Cartel
tattooswizard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)44
Total Keywords37,024
Referring Domains1,932
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)570,198
Traffic Trend
Technology
motorcitycomiccon.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords6,173
Referring Domains1,339
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)169,173
Traffic Trend
Technology
hollywoodtheatre.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords5,766
Referring Domains2,560
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)162,312
Traffic Trend
Technology
masqueradeatlanta.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords10,151
Referring Domains2,277
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)150,803
Traffic Trend
Technology
lawsofux.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords1,520
Referring Domains3,638
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)146,712
Traffic Trend
Technology
kittenrescue.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)55
Total Keywords5,514
Referring Domains1,587
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)142,440
Traffic Trend
Technology
phillymagicgardens.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords2,200
Referring Domains2,713
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)136,890
Traffic Trend
Technology
levelman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords7,829
Referring Domains1,525
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)97,861
Traffic Trend
Technology
pittsburghsymphony.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords4,146
Referring Domains3,004
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)95,557
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
kentuckytourism.com	English	72	58,860	7,449	26 yrs	1,770,649		Big Cartel

geappliances.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords172,944
Referring Domains18,787
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,996,400
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBigCommerce
bicyclecards.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords24,942
Referring Domains8,199
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,964,663
Traffic Trend
Technology
flagsexpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)28
Total Keywords17,675
Referring Domains887
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,330,342
Traffic Trend
Technology
simplicity.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords31,877
Referring Domains8,115
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,740,144
Traffic Trend
Technology
abcfws.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords131,783
Referring Domains5,291
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,685,137
Traffic Trend
Technology
smith-wesson.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords21,777
Referring Domains8,373
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,214,477
Traffic Trend
Technology
shop.kingarthurbaking.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords37,125
Referring Domains3,994
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,011,933
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.thermoworks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords63,073
Referring Domains6,162
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,738,240
Traffic Trend
Technology
delallo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords51,433
Referring Domains4,510
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,713,019
Traffic Trend
Technology
playitagainsports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords126,101
Referring Domains5,259
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,709,271
Traffic Trend
Technology