Retail & E-commerce

Shopify Won Commerce. The Rest Is Legacy.

59% of .store TLDs run Shopify. From Australia to the UAE, one platform dominates commerce — and everything else is playing catch-up on aging infrastructure.

Key data points

Shopify dominance in commerce TLDs

Australia .au: 26% Shopify. New Zealand .nz: 36%. UK: 14%. UAE: 5.4% Magento (highest Magento anywhere). Shopify is the default. Source: WebPulse 10M scan.

59% of .store

Average cost of e-commerce downtime

Lost sales, abandoned carts, brand damage. During peak seasons: 5-10x higher.

$12,500/hour

Cart abandonment rate on slow sites

Pages loading over 3 seconds. Legacy CMS sites average 4.2 seconds.

79%

Payment card data breaches (retail)

Magecart-style attacks targeting legacy e-commerce platforms.

~2,400 annually

Revenue lift from 1-second load improvement

Real conversion impact. Legacy to modern migration delivers this immediately.

7-12%

Risk factors

What keeps Retail & E-commerce CISOs awake

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WooCommerce (WordPress plugin) processing payments through 27+ plugin dependencies

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Magento 1 end-of-life since 2020 — sites still processing transactions

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PCI DSS compliance scope explosion with legacy plugin architectures

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Customer PII stored in databases behind unpatched PHP applications

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Inventory management on custom legacy apps with no API layer for AI-powered demand forecasting

Stack comparison

Typical vs Recommended

Typical Retail & E-commerce stack

WordPress 35

WooCommerce 32

PHP 7.x 33

MySQL 5.x 31

Apache HTTP Server 52

Recommended modern stack

Next.js 79

Shopify 61

Node.js 78

PostgreSQL 81

Docker 77

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Regulatory landscape

Compliance Exposure

PCI DSS 4.0

Payment card data. Every plugin in the checkout path is in scope. More plugins = more compliance work = more risk.

GDPR / CCPA

Customer data. Legacy CMS platforms make data subject requests operationally difficult.

PSD2 (EU)

Strong customer authentication. Legacy payment integrations may not support required authentication flows.

Consumer Protection

Site security failures leading to customer data exposure create direct legal liability.

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