Free Shopify Store Detector
Instantly check if any website is built on Shopify. Enter a domain and our Shopify store detector analyzes multiple signals: HTTP headers, CDN references, theme metadata, and more, to give you a definitive answer in seconds.
What is a Shopify store detector?
A Shopify store detector is a free tool that tells you whether any website is built on Shopify by inspecting its headers, HTML, CDN paths, and checkout signals.
Enter a domain into the SalesTracker store detector and it inspects HTTP response headers, HTML meta tags, JavaScript storefront configuration, Shopify CDN paths (cdn.shopify.com), checkout patterns, and storefront API endpoints.
Taken together these signals produce a high-confidence answer even for heavily customized or headless Shopify stores that don't visually look like a typical Shopify storefront. Ecommerce researchers, agencies, and competitive analysts use a Shopify store detector as the first step in any store analysis workflow, you need to confirm the platform before it makes sense to run theme, app, or traffic analysis against it.
Because the detector only reads publicly served HTML and asset references, there is nothing to install and nothing that exposes you to the store being checked. The merchant cannot tell a Shopify detection apart from a regular page view, and your check leaves no trace.
Why use this detector
Multi-Signal Detection
Instead of relying on a single marker, the detector checks HTTP headers, meta tags, Shopify CDN references, and theme objects together. This catches stores that have customized one or two surfaces to hide their platform.
Headless Support
Detects headless Shopify stores built with Hydrogen, Next.js, or Remix. Even when the frontend is fully custom, the detector spots the Shopify backend through storefront API paths and CDN references.
Instant Answer
Results appear in a few seconds. No signup, no credit card, no usage limits, check as many websites as you need back to back.
Works on Any Site
Enter any website URL, not just suspected Shopify stores. If the site isn't Shopify, the detector tells you and suggests what platform it might be on instead.
How it works
Enter a website
Paste any URL or bare domain. The Shopify store detector normalizes the input so both store.com and https://www.store.com/collection/all work the same way.
We check multiple signals
Our system fetches the homepage, inspects HTTP response headers, parses the HTML for theme metadata, and looks for Shopify-specific CDN paths and checkout patterns.
Get a confident answer
Within seconds you see whether the site is on Shopify, along with which detection signal confirmed it, so you know why we are confident in the result.
When to use a Shopify store detector
Platform research before store analysis
Before running any competitor analysis, theme detection, or app detection, you need to confirm the store is actually on Shopify. The Shopify store detector is the first step in every serious store research workflow.
Vetting wholesale and partnership prospects
When a brand claims to run a successful Shopify store, the detector confirms the platform in seconds. That matters for wholesale buyers, affiliate managers, and agency pitches that depend on the merchant actually being on Shopify.
Auditing an inherited tech stack
Agencies and freelancers taking over an existing ecommerce project use the Shopify website detector to confirm what they are inheriting, especially when the handover documentation is incomplete or outdated.
Learning from Shopify competitors
Even if you do not sell on Shopify, knowing which competitors do tells you how much of your niche runs on off-the-shelf Shopify tooling versus custom infrastructure, which changes how you benchmark costs and speed-to-market.
Also known as
The SalesTracker Shopify store detector is the same tool you may have searched for as 'is this a Shopify store?', 'check if site is Shopify', 'is this website built with Shopify', a Shopify website detector, Shopify CMS detector, Shopify platform checker, or 'how to know if a site uses Shopify'. Whatever you call it, the workflow is identical: enter a domain and we tell you whether it is on Shopify in seconds.
Frequently Asked Questions
Paste the website URL into the search box above and click Detect. The Shopify store detector returns a definitive yes / no along with the detection signal that confirmed it, usually within a few seconds.
We inspect several independent signals: HTTP response headers, HTML meta tags, JavaScript storefront configuration, Shopify CDN references (cdn.shopify.com), checkout patterns, and storefront API paths. Any one of these is usually enough to confirm Shopify; combining them catches stores that have customized some surfaces to obscure the platform.
Yes. Stores built with Hydrogen, Next.js, Remix, or any other custom frontend still talk to Shopify's backend through storefront API calls and CDN assets, and the detector reads those signals. Headless stores are flagged so you know the frontend is non-standard.
We treat a site as Shopify if its commerce backend is Shopify, regardless of whether the frontend looks like a typical Shopify theme. A headless site with a React frontend is still a Shopify store if its checkout, cart, and product data come from Shopify.
Yes, completely free with no limits on the number of websites you can check. There is no signup, no account, and no credit card required.
For standard and typical custom Shopify stores, accuracy is very high because Shopify leaves multiple identifying signals in every storefront's public HTML. Rare false negatives come from extremely heavily modified headless setups that strip every CDN reference, an intentional effort, not an accident.
Looking at page source works if you already know exactly what to search for across headers, HTML, scripts, and network requests. The detector automates the full multi-signal check in one request and returns a clean yes / no answer, which saves time and avoids false positives from copy-pasted Shopify widgets.
The detector analyzes whichever page you point it at. For maximum signal, we recommend pointing it at the root domain because homepages are the most richly instrumented pages in any Shopify storefront.
The free tool checks one domain at a time. Bulk checking through an API or export feature is planned for a future release, in the meantime, you can run several checks back to back with no rate limit for normal use.
No. The detector fetches a single public page, exactly the same as a regular visitor. There is no log entry that flags your check differently from normal web traffic.
Either the store is using a very aggressive headless or proxy setup that strips Shopify signals, or the domain is pointing at a landing page that is not actually the Shopify storefront (for example a Wix marketing page with a Shopify subdomain for checkout). Try entering the checkout or shop subdomain directly.
Run our companion tools, the Shopify Theme Detector, Shopify App Detector, and Shopify Traffic Checker, to build a complete picture of the store tech stack, installed apps, theme, and audience size.
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