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Ella: how many Shopify stores run it, and how fast it is.

Ella is a theme sold outside the Shopify Theme Store. In the September 2026 crawl of the web it ran 11,274 of 716,063 Shopify stores with real visitors, 1.6%, which makes it the #10 theme by use. For real visitors, 60% of 6,658 measured stores pass all three Core Web Vitals.

Ella at a glance

  • 11,274 Shopify stores ran Ella in September 2026: 1.6% of all Shopify stores in the crawl, #10 of all themes.
  • Sold outside the Theme Store. No store carries a Theme Store id, as the theme is installed from a file.
  • 60% of its stores pass all three Core Web Vitals for real visitors (6,658 measured), against 83% of all Shopify stores. Median LCP 2.1 s, INP 175 ms, CLS 0.00.
  • Most common version: 6.7.6 on 11% of its stores.
  • 45% of its stores are in the United States, then India (9.9%), Pakistan (9.6%), United Kingdom (4.0%).

Real-user speed on Ella

From the Chrome UX Report, phone visitors, 75th percentile per store. A store passes when LCP is at most 2.5 s, INP at most 200 ms and CLS at most 0.1. Only stores with all three published are counted.

StoresMeasuredMedian LCP (p75)Median INP (p75)Median CLS (p75)Good LCPGood INPGood CLSPass all three
On Ella6,6582.1 s175 ms0.0076%72%96%60%
All Shopify stores378,9971.5 s100 ms0.0091%91%96%83%

Check any store on Ella with the theme detector, or any store you visit with Store Lens for Chrome. Both show the version, how far it is behind, and this theme's figures.

Ella by store size

Site rank from the Chrome UX Report, which places every site by how many visitors it gets. The last column is Ella's share of all Shopify stores in that band.

Site rankElla storesShare of Ella storesShare of all Shopify stores in this bandElla's share of the band
Top 10,000 sites00.0%0.0%0.0%
Top 100,000480.4%0.3%2.6%
Top 1 million9248.2%6.5%2.0%
Beyond the top million10,30291.4%93.2%1.5%

Versions of Ella in use

Every Shopify storefront prints its theme version. A merchant stays on the version they installed until they add the new one and move their settings over.

VersionStoresShare of Ella stores
Ella 6.7.61,20310.7%
Ella 6.7.27766.9%
Ella 6.7.16956.2%
Ella 6.6.26946.2%
Ella 6.7.05574.9%
Ella 6.5.35474.9%
Ella 6.5.25174.6%
Ella 6.7.35034.5%
Ella 6.6.14734.2%
Ella 6.5.44233.8%
Ella 6.5.54083.6%
Ella 3.0.04003.5%

Where Ella stores are

The country each storefront reports, for the ten most common. The last column is the same country's share of all Shopify stores, so you can see where Ella is over- or under-represented.

CountryElla storesShare of Ella storesShare of all Shopify stores
United States5,11645.4%51.1%
India1,1159.9%4.7%
Pakistan1,0819.6%2.0%
United Kingdom4494.0%4.2%
Australia3152.8%3.0%
Germany1911.7%3.4%
Colombia1831.6%1.1%
Egypt1811.6%0.8%
Romania1771.6%0.5%
Italy1711.5%1.7%

Frequently asked questions

How many Shopify stores use the Ella theme?

11,274 stores in the HTTP Archive crawl of September 2026 ran Ella, 1.6% of the 716,063 Shopify stores in the crawl and #10 among all themes. None carried a Theme Store id, which is normal for a theme sold outside the Theme Store.

Is Ella a fast Shopify theme?

For real visitors, 60% of 6,658 measured stores pass all three Core Web Vitals in the Chrome UX Report for August 2026, against 83% of all Shopify stores. The median store on Ella has a 75th-percentile LCP of 2.1 s and INP of 175 ms. The theme sets the ceiling; apps, images and sections on the home page decide the rest.

Which version of Ella do most stores run?

Ella 6.7.6, on 1,203 stores (10.7% of Ella stores). Next come 6.7.2 (776), 6.7.1 (695), 6.6.2 (694). Shopify does not update a store's theme automatically, so older versions stay in use until the merchant installs the new one.

Where is this data from?

The HTTP Archive crawls the home page of every site in the Chrome UX Report once a month and records the storefront object Shopify prints on the page, including the theme name, version and Theme Store id. Speed comes from the Chrome UX Report, phone traffic, 75th percentile. Full method, limits and CSVs are on the report page.

Sources and method

Counts from the HTTP Archive crawl of September 2026 (mobile root pages, custom_metrics.ecommerce); speed from the Chrome UX Report, phone, August 2026; theme names and prices from the Shopify Theme Store catalogue. The method, its limits, the queries and the CSVs are on the report page. Data under CC BY 4.0: credit Mufatech Studio and link to this page.