Shopify Nation: 26% of Australia's Detected Web Runs on Shopify.
73,108 .au sites detected: 61% WordPress, 26% Shopify. New Zealand is even more Shopify-dependent at 36%. The Shopify-ification of the antipodean web is the real story.
Australia and New Zealand's Shopify dominance at 26-36% is the highest in the world. Shopify isn't just ecommerce here — it's replacing Drupal, Joomla, and even WordPress for SMBs.
New Zealand at 36% Shopify and 56% WordPress means modern JS frameworks have almost no footprint. The market chose between two platforms, not between legacy and modern.
Atlassian and Canva run modern infrastructure, but they're outliers. The average Australian business website is a WordPress-or-Shopify choice, not a technology architecture decision.
APRA CPS 234 requires regulated entities to maintain information security capability. With 61% WordPress and 26% Shopify, the financial services sector's web presence is an outlier from its regulatory obligations.
Same region. Different digital realities.
2 countries analyzed from our scan data. The gap within regions is wider than the gap between them.
Australian privacy legislation. Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Legacy infrastructure increases breach risk and complicates notification.
Information security standard for regulated financial entities. Legacy system assessment and remediation required.
New Zealand privacy legislation. Mandatory breach reporting. Modern infrastructure simplifies compliance.
ASD cybersecurity framework. Patch management requirements that legacy CMS platforms struggle to meet.