How to check if an e-commerce store is built with Shopify?

Shopify is an e-commerce platform allowing individuals and businesses to create online stores.
It provides various tools and features to help users design, set up, and manage their online storefronts, including website design templates, a secure shopping cart, payment processing, inventory management, and marketing tools.
The platform is designed to be user-friendly and accessible to people without any coding or technical background.
According to Statista, Shopify has a market share of 10% worldwide, which is impressively extensive.
If you want to check if a specific e-commerce store is built with Shopify, you can use 2 methods: 1) an online Shopify detector tool or 2) check the source code yourself.
Want to see what Shopify can do? Check out these fantastic Shopify website examples.
Method 1: Use an online Shopify detector tool
This is the easiest and quickest method.
Here is how you can do it:
- Copy the URL of the website you want to check.
- Paste it into our Shopify detector tool.
On the results page, you will get information on whether the website is powered by Shopify, what Shopify theme or template it uses, and what other technologies it uses.
Want to learn how to check for Shopify Apps? Read our guide here.
Method 2: Check the source code yourself
This is a bit more technical, but anybody can check the website’s source code using the guide below.
- Open the website: Open the website you want to check out.
- View Source Code: Right-click anywhere on the webpage (except on images or links) and select “
View Page Source
” or “View Source
” from the context menu. Alternatively, you can use keyboard shortcuts likeCtrl+U
on Windows/Linux orCommand+Option+U
on macOS. - Search for Shopify hints: Press
Ctrl+F
on Windows/Linux orCommand+F
on macOS to open the search function in the source code viewer. Type in keywords associated with Shopify, such asshopify.com
,cdn.shopify.com
(for Shopify’s content delivery network), orShopify.theme
. - Check Shopify scripts or URLs: Search for URLs or script tags that include “
shopify
” in the source code. Shopify websites often load scripts, images, and other resources from Shopify’s servers. - Check for Shopify Meta tag: Look for meta tags in the HTML head section that reference Shopify, such as
<meta name="generator" content="Shopify">
. This tag is often used to indicate the site is powered by Shopify.
If you can find any or multiple of these hints in the source code, you can be confident that the website is built with Shopify.
Check out our guide on which website platform is used.
Other popular web stacks you can investigate
Website builders
- SquareSpace detector (also detects themes).
- Webflow detector.
- Framer detector.
- Wix detector.
- Bubble.io detector.
- Weebly detector.
- Unbounce detector.
E-commerce platforms
- WooCommerce detector (also detects themes).
- Shopify detector.
- BigCommerce detector.
- PrestaShop detector.
- OpenCart detector.
CMS
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Christoffer Pettersen
Founder, Web developerPettersen is the founder of Stackcrawler, a platform that helps analyze tech stacks. He is passionate about new trends and technologies in the software industry.