How Popular Is Magento? Facts & Statistics

Currently, Magento is the most popular Ecommerce platform in the world since its launch in 2008. According to the Magento website, more than 200,000 online stores run on Magento including some of the leading brands like Samsung, Ford, and other well-known brands.

Magento is a versatile platform which offers marketing and promotion of various brands. It also focuses on Mobile Commerce offering responsive designs. It has a large number of products on one site with a possibility to handle more than 80,000 orders per hour.

The main problem for Ecommerce business is abandoned shopping carts and it happens when the customer adds items to their shopping cart without buying those items. Based on online shops statistics, the amount of buying users is great. 10% exited the website from the shopping cart while 41% made the purchase.

There have been more than 500,000+ Magento downloads by 2016 and it keeps on increasing till date.

There are number of reasons why people choose Magento for their online stores and we have gathered statistics which proves that Magento is really a popular Ecommerce platform.

Magento Usage Statistics:

Source: trends.builtwith.com

13% of the entire website which content management system use Magento. Hence we can call it a “Legend” of the Ecommerce world. From the beginning, Magento has gained more and more popularity.

Source: trends.builtwith.com

With 31% of market share, Magento has become the most renowned and used Ecommerce platform. Based on Alexa ranking of 2015 it was among the top 1 Million websites where Magento has been used by 26% of them.

Source: trends.builtwith.com

The Magento community is constantly growing. As mentioned below, Magento rank statistics by countries that are mostly oriented on Magento development websites.

Source: www.alexa.com

From the above statistics, you can say that the word “Magento” is searched on Google is more often than the word “Ecommerce” since 2008 which does not surprise us at all.

Source: trends.builtwith.com

With each passing year, Magento is becoming more and more professional and used platform by a large number of people. Magento 2 and later the Magento 2.1 the downloads are growing steadily and used by many business websites.

Conclusion

The above-provided statistics are just to illustrate how Magento is one of the best Ecommerce platforms with the comparison to working on other platforms. It wouldn’t have been so popular if the web development features it offers and the quality. It can handle a wide range of traffic and operate with high performance.

There is your answer to the question from the title – yes a lot, to quote some of the real world numbers from Magento’s official website:

• $25 Billion in Transactions
• 30,000+ Merchants
• 2000+ extensions
• 1.5 Million downloads

And counting.

What is your experience with Magento? Do these statistics hold true for your business? Do let us know in the comment section below.