Only 0.10% of Online Stores Run a Headless Storefront

    0.10% of online stores, about one in a thousand, run a recognizable headless storefront, and the total grew 2.1% in a year. Nearly all the growth belongs to Shopify's own framework, Hydrogen, which grew 69.6% and now runs half of all headless stores.

    Hydrogen by month
    Oct 2024
    724
    Apr 2025
    945
    Sep 2025
    1,183
    Dec 2025
    1,318
    Mar 2026
    1,399
    Jun 2026
    1,635
    Sep 2026
    2,006

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 3,911,812 ecommerce homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl, October 2024 to September 2026

    Source: Only 0.10% of Online Stores Run a Headless Storefront - Suff Digital