Is Big Cartel or Shopify more popular?

Shopify is used by more websites in our catalog: 292 use Big Cartel and 22,836 use Shopify.

Does Big Cartel or Shopify have higher-authority sites?

Big Cartel sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Big Cartel: 27, Shopify: 20).

Is Big Cartel or Shopify growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Big Cartel went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Shopify went from 3.3% to 2.6%. Big Cartel is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Big Cartel and Shopify?

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

Where does this Big Cartel vs Shopify 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 Shopify — Site Stats Database

Big Cartel vs Shopify

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	Shopify
Websites	292	22,836
Market share	0.06%	4.4%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	1.5%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#65	#4

Median DR	27	20

Average DR	29	23

Median keywords	485	1,000

Median referring domains	317	224

Median domain age	13 yrs	10 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	22,442	48,926

Combined monthly traffic	6,553,058	1,117,270,977

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

hollywoodreporter.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,682,319
Referring Domains253,182
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,328,180
Traffic Trend
TechnologyShopify
ifixit.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords501,930
Referring Domains65,151
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,811,562
Traffic Trend
Technology
princesspolly.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords296,055
Referring Domains4,719
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,676,376
Traffic Trend
Technology
owalalife.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords45,197
Referring Domains1,989
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,494,617
Traffic Trend
Technology
christmasinamerica.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)30
Total Keywords21,030
Referring Domains297
Domain Age3 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,840,049
Traffic Trend
Technology
windsorstore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords376,799
Referring Domains8,489
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,348,808
Traffic Trend
Technology
pissedconsumer.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords578,955
Referring Domains15,418
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,281,912
Traffic Trend
Technology
shop.mattel.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords101,009
Referring Domains15,292
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,948,548
Traffic Trend
Technology
adriannapapell.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords126,741
Referring Domains3,645
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,470,030
Traffic Trend
Technology
davidsbridal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords181,971
Referring Domains19,325
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,253,224
Traffic Trend
Technology