Introducing Shopify Leaderboards: Top Stores, Apps and Best Sellers

Today we are opening up a slice of the data behind Koala Inspector as a free public resource: Shopify Leaderboards. Pick a category, from fashion and beauty to pet supplies and auto parts, and you get the biggest Shopify stores in it and what they sell most. Two more lists rank the apps and themes the most Shopify stores run. We first published it as the Shopify Niche Index; it now has a new name, a home of its own and two new lists.

Most store research starts with a category question. Who are the biggest stores selling what I sell? What is actually selling in my category right now? Which apps and themes do the most stores run? Answering those used to mean opening dozens of stores one by one and guessing at the rest. We already track these stores for Koala Inspector, so we turned the answers into lists anyone can read, free and with no sign-up.

What is on the leaderboards

Every category gets one page with its top stores and its best sellers:

• Top stores. The busiest stores in the category by estimated monthly visits, with where they are based and how big their catalogs are. Start with pet stores, jewelry stores or the 25 biggest Shopify stores overall.
• Best sellers. What the category's biggest stores sell most, the product pages drawing the most visits and what those products cost. Start with this week's best sellers across Shopify.

The apps and themes the most stores run

Two of the lists look across every category at once. Top Shopify apps ranks the apps installed on the most stores we track, with each app's rating. Top Shopify themes does the same for themes, free and paid on one list. Choosing a review app or a theme for a new store? Start with the ones the most stores already run, then open the leaders in your category with Koala Inspector to see which ones they picked.

Go deeper on any store

The leaderboards show you who is ahead. Koala Inspector shows you how they got there. Open any store and you get its theme, every app it runs and its full catalog with likely best sellers, free. Tokens unlock the rest: where its traffic comes from and the keywords behind it (Site Traffic, 3 tokens), the Google and Facebook ads it is running (Ad Campaigns, 2 tokens) and, on Premium, a running log of the apps, products and prices it changes (Shop Tracking).