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      <title>Türkiye's E-commerce Landscape in 2026: What 28,169 Online Stores Tell Us</title>
      <dc:creator>AdPix</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/adpix/turkiyes-e-commerce-landscape-in-2026-what-28169-online-stores-tell-us-3bli</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/adpix/turkiyes-e-commerce-landscape-in-2026-what-28169-online-stores-tell-us-3bli</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Originally published by &lt;a href="https://adpix.com.tr/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;AdPix&lt;/a&gt;, an e-commerce and digital marketing agency based in Bursa, Türkiye. Full Turkish report: &lt;a href="https://adpix.com.tr/turkiye-e-ticaret-raporu-2026/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Türkiye E-Ticaret Mağaza Araştırması 2026&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In October 2026 we ran a crawl to answer a simple question: how many independent e-commerce stores operate in Türkiye on their own domains, where are they, and what do they sell? The crawl found &lt;strong&gt;28,169 stores&lt;/strong&gt;, and we could identify the province of &lt;strong&gt;17,506&lt;/strong&gt; of them. Every one of Türkiye's 81 provinces has at least one store.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  How the stores were found
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Domains came from the Common Crawl host graph, the Türkiye list of Google's Chrome UX Report (CrUX), newly registered domains and AdPix's own records.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We counted sites whose home page could be read and that publish in Turkish or show an address in Türkiye.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The e-commerce platform was recognised from the DNS record of the &lt;code&gt;www&lt;/code&gt; host. Stores on unrecognised platforms or their own servers are not included.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Each registered domain was counted once.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Province came from the address text on the site or the area code of a landline number.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sector is an estimate based on words in the home page title, description and menu (18 sectors).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Percentages are shares of the stores found, &lt;strong&gt;not market share or sales volume&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Where the stores are
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Province&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Stores&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Share of stores with a known province&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;İstanbul&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;8,577&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;49.0%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Ankara&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1,404&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;8.0%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;İzmir&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1,053&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;6.0%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Bursa&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;714&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;4.1%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Antalya&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;419&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;2.4%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;İstanbul alone hosts almost half of the stores with a known province, and İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir together account for 63.0%. The top 10 provinces hold 77.5%; the remaining 71 provinces share 3,946 stores.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What they sell
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Sector (estimate)&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Stores&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Share of all 28,169&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Clothing &amp;amp; fashion&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;5,244&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;18.6%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Food &amp;amp; beverage&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;3,594&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;12.8%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Automotive &amp;amp; spare parts&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1,821&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;6.5%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Jewellery &amp;amp; accessories&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1,789&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;6.4%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Electronics&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1,719&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;6.1%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fashion and food together make up 31.4% of the crawl. In all five largest provinces fashion ranks first; among the 22 provinces with at least 100 stores, fashion leads in 11 and food &amp;amp; beverage in 9.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Measurement tags on home pages
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Tag seen in home page HTML&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Stores&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Share&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;GA4 or Google Tag Manager&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;18,269&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;64.9%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Meta Pixel&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;11,289&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;40.1%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Google Ads tag&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;7,870&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;27.9%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;TikTok Pixel&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;1,429&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;5.1%&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These are lower bounds: we only looked at the home page HTML, so a pixel loaded through Tag Manager or only on product and checkout pages does not show up. Equally, seeing a tag does not prove it is firing correctly.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Limits worth keeping in mind
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The crawl is not every online store in Türkiye. The Ministry of Trade reported 634,611 businesses selling online in 2025; that figure counts businesses, while this study counts store sites on their own domains.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;10,663 stores (37.9%) have no identified province, so provincial shares are shares of the 17,506 located stores.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sector is a keyword-based estimate; small differences between sectors are not a firm ranking.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What store owners can do with this
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Compare your province and sector with the table above.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Check which tags actually load on your store with Tag Assistant, Meta's Ads Data Advisor and TikTok Pixel Helper.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Make sure tags that appear on the home page also fire on product, cart and order confirmation pages.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want a second pair of eyes on your store's measurement, SEO or ad setup, AdPix offers a &lt;a href="https://adpix.com.tr/ucretsiz-analiz/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;free e-commerce analysis&lt;/a&gt;. We also publish &lt;a href="https://adpix.com.tr/hesaplama-araclari/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;33 free e-commerce calculators&lt;/a&gt; for marketplace commissions, ad budgets and VAT.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;AdPix has been helping brands in Türkiye launch and grow online stores since 2012 and is an official ideasoft partner.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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