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

Motion is a paid Theme Store theme ($420 one-time). In the September 2026 crawl of the web it ran 4,902 of 716,063 Shopify stores with real visitors, 0.7%, which makes it the #28 theme by use. For real visitors, 78% of 2,818 measured stores pass all three Core Web Vitals.

Motion at a glance

  • 4,902 Shopify stores ran Motion in September 2026: 0.7% of all Shopify stores in the crawl, #28 of all themes.
  • Paid Theme Store theme, $420. 3,355 stores (68%) carry its Theme Store id; 1,547 run an uploaded copy, usually a developer's modified version.
  • 78% of its stores pass all three Core Web Vitals for real visitors (2,818 measured), against 83% of all Shopify stores. Median LCP 1.9 s, INP 100 ms, CLS 0.00.
  • Most common version: 10.4.0 on 7% of its stores.
  • 63% of its stores are in the United States, then Germany (5.1%), United Kingdom (3.3%), Australia (3.2%).

Real-user speed on Motion

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 Motion2,8181.9 s100 ms0.0082%96%94%78%
All Shopify stores378,9971.5 s100 ms0.0091%91%96%83%

Check any store on Motion 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.

Motion by store size

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

Site rankMotion storesShare of Motion storesShare of all Shopify stores in this bandMotion's share of the band
Top 10,000 sites00.0%0.0%0.0%
Top 100,00040.1%0.3%0.2%
Top 1 million2234.5%6.5%0.5%
Beyond the top million4,67595.4%93.2%0.7%

Versions of Motion 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 Motion stores
Motion 10.4.03557.2%
Motion 11.1.03326.8%
Motion 11.2.02885.9%
Motion 12.0.02645.4%
Motion 10.1.02194.5%
Motion 10.4.12084.2%
Motion 11.0.02054.2%
Motion 10.5.21853.8%
Motion 10.6.11853.8%
Motion 10.6.21493.0%
Motion 8.0.11453.0%
Motion 9.0.01372.8%

Moving a store to a newer version without losing its settings is what our theme upgrade tool does.

Where Motion 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 Motion is over- or under-represented.

CountryMotion storesShare of Motion storesShare of all Shopify stores
United States3,07362.7%51.1%
Germany2485.1%3.4%
United Kingdom1603.3%4.2%
Australia1573.2%3.0%
Canada1222.5%2.1%
Japan861.8%2.0%
France771.6%2.2%
India661.3%4.7%
Pakistan651.3%2.0%
Denmark621.3%0.6%

Frequently asked questions

How many Shopify stores use the Motion theme?

4,902 stores in the HTTP Archive crawl of September 2026 ran Motion, 0.7% of the 716,063 Shopify stores in the crawl and #28 among all themes. 3,355 of them carried the Theme Store id; the rest were uploaded copies.

Is Motion a fast Shopify theme?

For real visitors, 78% of 2,818 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 Motion has a 75th-percentile LCP of 1.9 s and INP of 100 ms. The theme sets the ceiling; apps, images and sections on the home page decide the rest.

Which version of Motion do most stores run?

Motion 10.4.0, on 355 stores (7.2% of Motion stores). Next come 11.1.0 (332), 11.2.0 (288), 12.0.0 (264). 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.