About CommerceRank

CommerceRank is a Shopify store intelligence platform that helps ecommerce businesses understand where they stand in the market — built from a decade of hands-on experience running and analysing Shopify stores.

Why We Built This

After years of building and scaling Shopify stores — and regularly being asked questions like “what theme do most top stores in our category use?” or “are we growing faster or slower than competitors?” — it became clear that merchants were making major technical and commercial decisions with very little market data to guide them.

Theme migrations, BNPL integrations, review platform choices: these decisions have real performance and revenue implications, yet most store owners were making them based on blog posts or guesswork. CommerceRank was built to change that — by making the aggregated intelligence visible for the first time.

What We Do

We continuously track 57,848+ Shopify stores, analysing their themes, product catalogues, integrations, and growth over time. Our goal is to give store owners, developers, and agencies the market context they need to make smarter decisions — whether that's choosing the right theme, spotting a growing competitor, or benchmarking performance against a category average.

How It Works

Store Discovery

We continuously discover and scan Shopify stores, extracting publicly available information about their setup and configuration.

Categorization

Each store is categorized by industry, theme, country, and integrations to enable meaningful comparisons and discovery.

Historical Tracking

We track changes over time — product counts, theme migrations, and growth trends — to show how stores evolve.

Benchmarking

Compare your store against category averages. See if you're in the top 10%, 25%, or where you rank overall.

Our Methodology

Store data is collected by scanning Shopify storefronts for publicly accessible signals: theme detection via Shopify's standard theme API, integration detection via known script patterns, product and collection counts from public catalogue pages, and performance scores from Google's PageSpeed Insights (mobile, Lighthouse v12).

Data Collection

Store frontends are scanned via the Limely API, which detects themes, integrations, and configurations from publicly visible page signals. No authenticated access is used.

Scan Frequency

Stores are rescanned periodically to detect theme migrations, catalogue changes, and new integrations. Performance scores are refreshed monthly via PageSpeed Insights.

What We Track

  • Products & Collections — Total product count and how it changes over time
  • Themes — Which Shopify theme each store uses, including bespoke/custom themes and migration history
  • Integrations — Review platforms (Trustpilot, Yotpo, etc.) and finance/payment options (Klarna, Clearpay, etc.)
  • Performance — PageSpeed Insights scores (mobile) for stores that have been tested
  • Geographic Data — Store country and currency
  • Growth Metrics — Product additions/removals, theme migrations, and trend data

Privacy & Ethics

Public Data Only

We only analyze publicly visible information. No private data, customer information, or revenue figures are collected.

Respectful Scanning

Our scanning is rate-limited and respectful of server resources. We don't overload stores or interfere with their operations.

Built by Niko Moustoukas

CommerceRank is operated by Limely Ltd (company no. 08730008) and built by Niko Moustoukas, an ecommerce strategist with over a decade of experience building and scaling high-performance stores across Magento, Hyvä, and Shopify Plus. The platform grew out of a recurring need — encountered across hundreds of client projects — for objective, data-backed market intelligence in the Shopify ecosystem.

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