Dawn on new websites

Shopify reference storefront theme, and the base most modern Shopify themes are built on.

Sites using Dawn
694
since Jul 2026
Last 30 days
0.0%
of new sites, to Oct 18
no change on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.0%
of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
Rank in Shopify Theme
#4
of 50 tools, all time
First seen Jul 9, 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website themes.shopify.com

What we found

  1. Dawn appeared on about 220 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
  2. It is unusually common on .store domains: 5.9% of the domains running it, against 2.1% of domains across new sites.

Share of new sites using Dawn

0.000% 0.005% 0.010% 0.015% 0.020% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Dawn, since 10 September.

Who uses Dawn

Kind of site 214 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
E-commerce 164 76.6%
Health 20 9.4%
Games 7 3.3%
Content 6 2.8%
Design 5 2.3%
Social 5 2.3%
Finance 2 0.9%
Developer Tools 1 0.5%
Directory 1 0.5%
Education 1 0.5%
Marketing 1 0.5%
Productivity 1 0.5%
Country[2] 142 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
US 33 23.2%
India 32 22.5%
UK 20 14.1%
Canada 12 8.5%
Australia 8 5.6%
Germany 5 3.5%
Japan 4 2.8%
France 3 2.1%
Italy 3 2.1%
New Zealand 3 2.1%
Sweden 3 2.1%
Brazil 2 1.4%
Domain ending 693 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 476 68.7%
.store 41 5.9%
.net 30 4.3%
.in 29 4.2%
.uk 19 2.7%
.co 14 2.0%
.ca 12 1.7%
.online 10 1.4%
.au 7 1.0%
.us 7 1.0%
.de 5 0.7%
.site 4 0.6%

Shopify Theme on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[3] Bar
1 – Shrine Theme 0.1% 50.3%
2 – Minimog <0.1% 16.3%
3 – Kalles <0.1% 6.4%
4 – Dawn <0.1% 5.1%
5 ▼2 Elixir Theme <0.1% 2.8%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Shopify Theme tool. All 50 in Shopify Theme

Often used with Dawn

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
Focal 200 8652x
Shopify 641 16x
WebMCP 445 15x
Google Domains DNS 278 14x
Vite 633 3.8x

Tools that turn up far more often on Dawn sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recently launched products built on Dawn

3 of the 694 sites using Dawn are product launches we list individually. The other 691 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 694 sites using Dawn, from £15 a month.

Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
  3. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Shopify App.

How this page is made

FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards Dawn when we detect Dawn on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites

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