Wow, what a milestone. WooCommerce has today hit 2 million downloads, just 6 months after hitting a million.
How did we get here? Team WooCommerce has grown from 2 to 11 employees over the past 2 years, we’ve made 63 releases, closed 3735 Github issues (out of 3779), and solved over 30k support tickets.
Since the creation of the WooCommerce repository on Github, there have been a massive **6,284 commits*. Personally I’ve made 3,134 commits of those, with 1,187,191 line additions and 887,313 lines removed.
WooCommerce is by far the biggest and most successful thing I’ve worked on and I’m so happy to see it flourishing, especially this quickly into it’s existence.
Platform growth
Google trends shows the increasing interest in searches related to WooCommerce which really demonstrates its popularity:
This dwarfs other WordPress eCommerce plugins. Other platforms such as Magento do still have more interest average, but WooCommerce is catching up fast (given it’s age, and that its not a dedicated eCommerce solution this is pretty impressive).
BuiltWith has even more promising stats, suggesting WooCommerce powers 9% of eCommerce sites (thats 154 463 stores!). the below chart shows it’s popularity amongst the top 100k, 10k and 1 million sites. and suggests at present it is more popular with smaller sites, but that popularity is growing.
BuiltWith also has stats about platform usage showing just what the stores they track are using. WooCommerce takes a large chunk of that pie. Interestingly many use custom carts. I would expect custom carts to be a lot more work over time for the companies involved, so perhaps those will start moving to other solutions (including WC) in the near future?
It’s good to see WooCommerce beating other WordPress eCommerce plugins, and even many dedicated eCommerce platforms, by a substantial margin.
What’s next?
We’ll continue to improve core (2.1 is coming out soon) build and evolve surrounding plugins, and hopefully continue with the impressive growth we’ve seen so far. As the platform evolves I imagine WooCommerce will appeal more and more to users of WordPress, and WordPress + WooCommerce will become a more serious alternative to dedicated eCommmerce platforms like Magento.
Bring on 3 million!
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