Honey Shopify Theme — Usage Statistics
Honey runs on 0.1% of the 3,500,000+ Shopify stores across our full detection dataset. For how its share is moving right now, see theme trends.
Honey is a Shopify theme used by 0.1% of the Shopify stores in our dataset. The figure reflects live storefront detection of the active theme, not Theme Store download counts.
Theme store ID: 2160 — the number Honey stamps into every store that installs it.
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Honey adoption trend
Honey has held steady at about 0.1% of the stores scanned each month in recent months. See all Shopify trends →
Honey speed & Core Web Vitals
Across 40 real Honey stores, 69.2% pass Google’s Core Web Vitals (median LCP 1.7s). Filtered to stores running only a few apps, that rises to 75%, isolating the theme’s own speed from the apps merchants pile on.
Honey, from Archer Commerce, is a premium one-time Theme Store theme pitched squarely at pet brands selling to dogs, cats, horses, and the people who buy for them. It ships five preset styles (Honey, Maravella, Noteable, Roadster, Treasure), each framed as a different pet-business personality rather than a colorway swap. The Theme Store rating sits in the high-nineties on a middle-double-digit review sample, which is a credible-but-small signal rather than an elite one, and the real-store speed signal sits close to the premium-theme median rather than above it.
Pet is a category with its own content shape (ingredient tables and size guides for collars and harnesses, breed filters, subscription for food and treats, multi-pet household flows), and a vertical-specialist theme is useful where a general-purpose one needs section surgery. The five Honey presets give a merchant a running start without buying a second theme. For a pet brand weighing Honey against a general theme that happens to look nice on pet photography, the question is less about the hero section and more about whether the sections and metaobject templates below the fold cover ingredient disclosure, feeding frequency, and multi-pet household logic without manual template work.
It is one of the few pet-specialist premium themes in the Theme Store. The vertical positioning is explicit (dogs, cats, horses) rather than a general-purpose theme with pet imagery, and that single fact changes who it is a fit for. A pet brand will get sections and templates aligned to its catalog shape without rebuilding them; a non-pet merchant will inherit a visual language and content model built for someone else's category.
Five presets is above the typical premium-theme spread. Most themes in this price band ship with one or two preset styles; Honey ships five, each named to suggest a different pet-business personality rather than a colorway. The practical upside for a pet merchant is more starting points to test against the final brand without buying a second theme. The downside is familiar: the Theme Store's URL structure treats each preset as a separate theme page, so Theme Store review chatter and off-store review-site mentions split across the names.
The rating is credible but on a small sample. The positive-review score is high, which is a real signal, but the review count sits in the middle-double digits rather than the hundreds that elite themes carry. For a premium one-time purchase that is hard to return, pair the stars with the live preview of the preset you plan to use rather than treating the headline rating as a general verdict.
Real-store speed sits at the premium-theme median, not above it. The CrUX pass rate on real Honey stores (shown in the panel below) is close to the premium-theme median, with LCP in the comfortable-but-not-fast range. For a pet brand picking primarily on vertical fit, that is a non-issue; for a merchant choosing between Honey and a faster general-purpose theme, speed will not be the deciding factor and the pet-section depth has to carry the argument.
Top apps used on Honey stores
| # | App | % of stores | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Klaviyo
Email Marketing |
36.3% | |
| 2 |
 Judge.me Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
36.3% | |
| 3 |
 Loox ‑ Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
28.6% | |
| 4 |
 Recharge
Subscriptions |
14.3% | |
| 5 |
 Instafeed ‑ Instagram Feed
Marketing - Other |
12.1% | |
| 6 |
Shop Pay
Payment options - Other |
11.0% | |
| 7 |
 Rebuy Personalization Engine
Checkout - Other |
11.0% | |
| 8 |
 PageFly ✦ AI Page Builder
Page builder |
9.9% | |
| 9 |
 GemPages Landing Page Builder
Page builder |
8.8% | |
| 10 |
 Yotpo
Product reviews |
8.8% |
Store types using Honey
By business model
- Subscription 14.3%
- Multichannel & Marketplaces 3.3%
- Wholesale / B2B 2.2%
- Dropshipping 2.2%
- Print on Demand 2.2%
By what they sell
- Home & Garden 25.9%
- Apparel & Accessories 25.9%
- Health & Beauty 24.7%
- Food, Beverages & Tobacco 20.0%
- Animals & Pet Supplies 17.6%
- Dog Supplies 9.4%
Examples of stores running Honey
- alphapaw.com
- furrandco.com
- radilum.com
- skinnovation.in
- asoliani.com
- ginnabelles.com
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How this data works
This figure comes from live detection: we scan Shopify storefronts and read the active theme each one runs, then express it as a share of the 3,500,000+ stores in our dataset. It is a share of every store in our dataset, not just recently scanned stores, so it moves more slowly than the month-over-month figures on our trends page. We report what is currently detected, not historical installs or Theme Store / App Store counts.
Independent by design: rankings are determined solely by live detection data. Affiliate relationships never affect what ranks or how stores are counted. Read the full methodology →
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ShopThemeDetector, "Honey Shopify theme usage statistics", 2026. https://shopthemedetector.com/shopify-themes/honey
