--- title: "Ecommerce Personalization Statistics: 2.1% of Stores Use It" url: https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/ecommerce-personalization-software description: "Ecommerce personalization statistics: only 2.1% of online stores run personalization software, against 8.4% of high-traffic stores. 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Stores among the million most visited websites use it at 8.4%, four times that rate. Analysis of 3,911,812 online stores · the public HTTP Archive crawl of 15.5 million websites, September 2026 ## Key Findings 1. 1. Only **2.1%** of online stores run personalization software such as Dynamic Yield, Nosto or Rebuy on their homepage, about one store in fifty. Copy stat 2. 2. **8.4%** of online stores among the million most visited websites run personalization software, four times the 2.1% rate across all online stores. Copy stat 3. 3. **6.7%** of Shopify stores run personalization software, and Shopify stores make up about 60% of the online stores that use it. Copy stat 4. 4. Across all websites, personalization software peaks at **7.1%** of websites ranked 1,000 to 10,000 and falls to 0.5% of websites outside the top 10 million. Copy stat 5. 5. Australian websites use personalization software most, at **1.9%**, against 0.3% of German websites. Copy stat ## Summary Two shoppers open the same online store. One has bought running shoes there twice; the other arrived from an ad for a winter jacket. On a personalized store, the first sees new running gear and the second sees jackets, each with recommendations based on what they browsed. On most stores, both see the same homepage, the same banner and the same best sellers. Personalization software changes what a store shows to each visitor, using what they have viewed, bought or searched for. It powers product recommendations, "recently viewed" rows, tailored banners and offers, and upsells in the cart. For a store, showing each shopper more relevant products can lift both conversion and order size. Almost no store uses it. Only **2.1%** of online stores run personalization software on their homepage, about one store in fifty. It is a big-store tool: stores among the million most visited websites use it at 8.4%, four times the average. ## What we measured We used the public HTTP Archive crawl of September 2026, which loads the homepages of 15,470,478 websites and records the software each one uses. Of those, 3,911,812 are online stores, sites running a store platform or shopping-cart software, and 729,553 of the stores run on Shopify. Among the online stores, we counted those loading a personalization tool on the homepage, then compared platforms, popularity and country domains. A personalization tool is software that tailors a website's content or product recommendations to each visitor, such as Dynamic Yield, Nosto, Rebuy, LimeSpot and Monetate. Popularity comes from Google's Chrome UX Report, which ranks websites by how often real Chrome users visit them. The popularity and country comparisons count all websites in each group, not only stores. ## Personalization is a big-store tool 8.4% of online stores among the million most visited websites run personalization software. That is four times the 2.1% rate across all online stores. Personalization software needs traffic to work: it learns from what visitors do, and a store with a few hundred visitors a day gives it little to learn from. Larger stores also have enough sales to measure the small gains it brings. The same pattern holds across the web. Among the 1,000 most visited websites of any kind, 4.2% run a personalization tool on their homepage, and business-to-business websites with marketing automation sit at 3.6%. WordPress websites sit at 0.3%. Share with personalization software by group Online stores (all platforms) 2.1% Shopify stores 6.7% WordPress websites 0.3% Business-to-business websites 3.6% Stores among the million most visited websites 8.4% The 1,000 most visited websites 4.2% Source: Suff Digital analysis of 3,911,812 online stores · the public HTTP Archive crawl of 15.5 million websites, September 2026 ## One online store in fifty personalizes Across all platforms, 2.1% of online stores run personalization software, 81,587 stores out of 3.9 million. Shopify stores are more than three times as likely to use it, at 6.7%, about 48,700 stores and roughly 60% of every store with personalization software. Shopify's lead lines up with its app store. Several tools in this category, such as Rebuy and LimeSpot, are built as Shopify apps that add recommendation blocks and cart upsells to a store without a developer. On other platforms, the same features usually take custom work or an enterprise contract, so they stay with the biggest stores. ## Personalization fades outside the top 100,000 Across all websites, personalization tools appear on 7.1% of websites ranked 1,000 to 10,000 and 5.3% of those ranked 10,000 to 100,000. Use then drops to 2.9% for websites ranked 100,000 to 1 million, 1.1% for those ranked 1 million to 10 million and 0.5% beyond that, a fourteenfold fall from the peak. Share of websites with personalization software by popularity rank Top 1,000 4.2% 1,000 to 10,000 7.1% 10,000 to 100,000 5.3% 100,000 to 1 million 2.9% 1 million to 10 million 1.1% Outside the top 10 million 0.5% By country domain, use is low everywhere. Australian websites lead at 1.9%, followed by UK and Canadian websites at 1.7% and .us websites at 1.6%. Spanish websites sit at 0.9%, French websites at 0.4% and German websites at 0.3%. ## What this means for online stores For most stores, dedicated personalization software is not the next step. The simpler versions, such as "customers also bought" blocks, recently viewed products and cart upsells, often come with your store platform or a low-cost app. Turn those on first, on product and cart pages where shoppers are deciding. If you have steady traffic and a catalog large enough that shoppers struggle to find the right product, test a recommendations tool against your current pages and measure average order value and conversion, not clicks on the recommendations. Returning customers are the best place to start, because the software already knows what they bought. Because only one online store in fifty runs personalization software, a store that does it well stands out. An ecommerce cro agency (https://www.suffdigital.com/services/cro/ecommerce-cro) can run those tests and tell you whether the gain covers the cost of the tool. ## Embed this research Paste this on your site to embed the charts. It links back to the source automatically.

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Only 2.1% of Online Stores Personalize Their Homepage vs 8.4% of High-Traffic Stores. https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/ecommerce-personalization-software Plain link Only 2.1% of Online Stores Personalize Their Homepage vs 8.4% of High-Traffic Stores - Suff Digital - https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/ecommerce-personalization-software ## Frequently asked questions ### What percentage of online stores use personalization software? ### Do Shopify stores use personalization tools? ### Do big online stores use personalization more? ### Which websites use personalization software most? ## Related studies - CRO The Busiest Online Stores Use Dedicated Site Search 12 Times as Often as Small Stores: https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/ecommerce-site-search-tools - CRO Only 3.2% of Websites Run an A/B Testing Tool on Their Homepage: https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/ab-testing-tool-adoption - CRO 21.7% of Shopify Stores Run Klaviyo Email Marketing vs 4.9% of All Online Stores: https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/klaviyo-online-store-adoption - 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