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The State of Salla in 2024

Updated May 17 2024

Founded in 2016, Salla is a Shopify-like ecommerce platform that allows anyone to set up their Arabic ecommerce stores to sell online using their platform and tools.

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Salla usage.

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Salla Growth

At present, there are 19,406 live stores running on the Salla platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Salla.

  • Salla stores increased 13.5% quarter-over-quarter in 2024 Q1.
  • Salla stores increased 76% year-over-year in 2024 Q1.
Quarter
Active Stores
2020 Q4
6,194
2021 Q1
5,556
2021 Q2
7,571
2021 Q3
8,076
2021 Q4
9,166
2022 Q1
10,185
2022 Q2
11,108
2022 Q3
14,639
2022 Q4
16,254
2023 Q1
17,169
2023 Q2
16,754
2023 Q3
19,725
2023 Q4
21,854
2024 Q1
22,252
2024 Q2 (to date)
19,406
Active Stores by Quarter

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

It's hard to know exactly when a Salla store was first created but we use a heuristic that includes historical DNS data which provides a reasonable approximation.

Social Media Usage On Salla Stores

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

  • Instagram is used by 71.3% of Salla stores.
  • Tiktok is used by 44.7% of Salla stores.
  • Snapchat is used by 36.4% of Salla stores.
Type
Stores
Instagram
13,845
Tiktok
8,673
Snapchat
7,065
Twitter
6,409
YouTube
2,548
Facebook
2,208
WhatsApp
854
LinkedIn
65
Pinterest
8
Facebook Group
3

Contact Information On Salla Stores

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

  • 57% of Salla stores provide a phone number on their website
  • 41% of Salla stores have an email on their website
Type
Stores
Phone
11,117
Email
8,040

Top Categories For Salla Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on Salla.

  • 13.4% of Salla stores sell Apparel products.
  • 13.2% of Salla stores sell Beauty & Fitness products.
  • 6.8% of Salla stores sell Home & Garden products.

Top Countries For Salla Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Salla.

  • 65.6% of Salla stores are in Saudi Arabia
  • 0.1% of Salla stores are in Montenegro
  • 0.1% of Salla stores are in United Arab Emirates
  • 0.1% of Salla stores are in United States

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Number Of Employees For Salla Stores

Here is the breakdown of Salla stores by the number of employees.

  • 99.4% of Salla stores have Unknown employees.
  • 0.2% of Salla stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.1% of Salla stores have 10 - 24 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
19,283
1 - 9
45
10 - 24
24
25 - 49
16
50 - 99
8
100 - 249
10
250 - 999
9
1000 - 4999
9
5000+
2

Number Of Products Sold For Salla Stores

Here is the breakdown of Salla stores by the number of products that they sell.

  • 20.5% of Salla stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
  • 10.6% of Salla stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
  • 9.0% of Salla stores sell 10 - 24 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
3,987
10 - 24
1,744
25 - 49
1,499
50 - 99
762
100 - 249
2,063
250 - 999
1,108
1000 - 4999
270
5000 - 9999
60
10000 - 24999
27
25000 - 99999
9

Top Technologies on Salla Stores

We're tracking 63 different technologies that have 491,914 collective installs on Salla stores.

  • Google Tag Manager is used by 99.7% of Salla stores.
  • Google Adsense is used by 99.7% of Salla stores.
  • Sift is used by 99.7% of Salla stores.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all Salla stores.

Technology
Stores
19,340
19,327
19,325
19,317
19,316

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Salla Stores

  • Aramex is used by 0.4% of Salla stores.
  • DHL is used by 0.0% of Salla stores.
  • UPS is used by 0.0% of Salla stores.

Here are the top 5 shipping carriers across all Salla stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
Aramex
68
DHL
8
UPS
8
Fedex
6
ORLEN
1

Salla Store Top-level Domain Distribution

.com is the most popular top-level domain for Salla stores. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only been introduced somewhat recently and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

That said, you'll find stark regional differences in certain countries. In Australia, .com.au is the most common top-level domain with .com a close second. This is the exception however as .com domains dominate in virtually all other countries.

  • 89.2% of Salla stores have a .com domain.
  • 4.8% of Salla stores have a .sa domain.
  • 1.3% of Salla stores have a .net domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
17,314
.sa
925
.net
247
.com.sa
235
.store
160
.co
132
.shop
79
.org.sa
51
.online
45
.me
36

Top Salla Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by Salla, ordered by store rank.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
laverne.com
53,684
2021/10/29
cvaley.com
64,308
2017/09/29
melen.sa
67,436
2020/12/04
sbaik.sa
72,018
2020/12/04
zyros.com
86,306
2017/03/24

New Salla Stores

Here are the 0 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Media Fiber
3,284,247
2024/05/17
saudi-girl.com
3,421,489
2024/05/17
alrawybookstore.com
3,481,423
2024/05/17
themmar.com
3,612,272
2024/05/17
bayanboxsinc.com
4,127,022
2024/05/17

Stores Switching to Salla From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has taken 118 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores
27
19
11
2

Here are the top stores that have switched to Salla from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
tactical.sa
349,324
WooCommerce
2024/05/13
commercialsajem.com
442,776
Zid
2024/04/15
alzahrahalsahera.com
520,907
Zid
2024/04/29
oqily store
652,523
OpenCart
2024/03/07
Coffee Lounge 85
686,950
Shopify
2024/05/11

Stores Switching from Salla To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Salla has lost 29 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform
Stores
9
1

Here are the top Salla stores that have recently changed to a competitive platform.

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
www.7md.ae
355,157
Custom Cart
2024/05/06
KSA
510,892
Shopify
2024/04/01
VexShop
1,062,082
Zid
2024/03/04
Comfortable Life
1,380,555
Custom Cart
2024/03/05
alsultanfab.com
1,642,078
Zid
2024/05/14

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