The Top Performing Shopify Sites of 2019 (so far)

The Top Performing Shopify Sites of 2019 (so far)

When it comes to business success you should ALWAYS be true to yourself. But that doesn’t mean you don’t watch what the leaders are doing to see if you can learn something or get inspired by their success. But how do you know which sites to look at?

“Best Shopify Websites” Is Not Enough

If you do a search for “Best Shopify Websites” more often than not you are going to get a curated list of Shopify sites – the sites that some person thinks are pretty or effective. But that’s not good enough. We want to remove all that subjective opinion and find the Shopify websites that are the actual leaders. Because – as we all know – the best-looking site is not always the one that wins the eCommerce game.

How Do You Determine the “BEST” Shopify Websites?

No entrepreneur in their right mind is going to share their sales revenue data with us – that’s just not going to happen. But we’ve gotten pretty good at this research thing, so we used a couple of website data providers and cross-referenced their results to discover the top Shopify websites as ranked by total traffic. Since most experts equate traffic ranking with marketing success, we’ll use that for our list.

Here is our list of the Top Five Shopify eCommerce Business Websites Right Now, along with some brief commentary on each.

The Top Five Shopify Websites Right Now

#1 ColourPop

Global Site Rank: #2487
Category: Makeup & Beauty
Location: United States
Find Them: colourpop.com

How they describe their business:

“Colourpop was born, raised and made with love in the City of Angels. Founded in 2014 by Seed Beauty, we pride ourselves on being wallet friendly and bunny approved. We test our products in the nicest way possible, leaving fur babies to be fur babies and experimenting on people instead (the people at ColourPop HQ to be exact!).”

Quick Comment:

This website is a referral link monster. They have nearly five thousands sites linking in that point to articles or are referral links.

ColourPop website is the best performing Shopify Website so far

 

#2 — FashionNova

Global Site Rank: #4412
Category: Hip Urban Fashions

Location: United States
Find Them: fashionnova.com 

How they describe their business:

“We at Fashion Nova believe the customer is the Star. The girls who rock our styles are adventurous, inspirational and badass. A Nova Star is always the best dressed girl in the room. Her confidence is what truly shines, but her Fashion Nova outfit adds that extra sparkle. We strive to provide awesome service, unbeatable prices and the hottest trends. Our company is based in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles and has five retail locations in Southern California. In addition, we ship globally to Nova Stars around the world.”

Quick comment:

This site just plain works. They have an exceptionally low bounce rate and a huge amount of page views per visitor. Customers come and stay for a while, and that ALWAYS equals selling success.

FashionNova website is the number two most successful Shopify store so far this year

 

#3 — Spigen

Global Site Rank: #23,042
Category: Smartphone Accessories

Location: United States
Find Them: spigen.com

How they describe their business:

“Since its launch in 2008, Spigen has earned recognition from producers in the industry, and is now one of the leading global providers for premier mobile accessories. With a solidified reputation and longstanding commitment to customers, Spigen continues to grow while setting new goals on maintaining its core values of smart, protective products.”

Quick comment:

The site looks great and is super-optimized for speed. And it’s easy to search and navigate for products.

Spigen is #3 on our list of top Shopify websites so far in 2019

 

#4 — CitieSocial

Global Site Rank: #24,304
Category: General Goods

Location: Taiwan
Find Them: citiesocial.com 

How they describe their business:

“Founded in 2011, citiesocial is curated eCommerce focused on high-quality Home, Electronic and Fashion accessories. We disrupt the Taiwan eCommerce market via selective merchandising, data-driven marketing, and high-efficiency platform development. We aim to create a haven for product discovery, solidified by customer trust.”

Quick comment:

The entire site is in Chinese, but it is laid out like a classic dropship and referral eCommerce website. But they totally legit earned their spot on our list.

The fourth BEST Shopify eCommerce website for 2019 so far is CitieSocial

 

#5 — KylieCosmetics

Global Site Rank: #28,449
Category: Makeup & Beauty

Location: United States
Find Them: kyliecosmetics.com 

How they describe their business:

Kylie Cosmetics by Kylie Jenner is one of the fastest growing beauty brands in the world. Having launched three years ago, Kylie Cosmetics was put on the makeup map, by Kylie’s infamous "Lip Kit," consisting of a matching liquid lipstick and lip liner to create the perfect Kylie pout. Kylie’s never-before-seen concept disrupted the market and changed the face of the beauty industry forever. Kylie has since gone on to expand the collection into a full range of color cosmetics, including eyeshadow palettes, concealers, highlighters, blushes, accessories and more, as well as becoming one of the most renowned and coveted cosmetics brands of 2018. 

Quick comment:

Kylie Jenner – of the famous Kardashians – is THE most entrepreneurial member of her family by far. Her sister Kim may grab more headlines, by Kylie has both beauty and brains for business.

The Kylie Cosmetics Shopify store is as good looking as she is and takes our #5 spot

 

Honorable Mention – Funco

This maker of licensed toys and collectibles does a TON of business at Christmas. On Black Friday their traffic ranked at about #18,000 and would have been #3 on our list back then. But traffic is slower now, so they just missed the cut.

Find them: funko.com

Our Sources for Best Shopify Websites

Traffic data is a very fluid and even volatile statistic. Things change all the time. We downloaded publicly available research data on February 24, 2019, to generate our list. We compared and cross-referenced data from the following sources: BuiltWith, Alexa, TheWebMiner, and LogicInBound. It’s possible that other Shopify websites have blocks or filters in place that prevent our analytics tools and sources from properly measuring results … but not likely. This is a pretty good list.

Thanks for reading!

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