Download websites that use VirtueMart

About VirtueMart

VirtueMart is not a website, it is a decision made inside one. The software is a storefront extension for a content management system rather than a standalone platform, so finding it on a domain tells you two things at once. The site sells something, and the site was built on Joomla.

Stacked detections of that kind are worth more than either half alone. A general ecommerce list gives you shops. A content management list gives you a technical profile. A list of VirtueMart installations gives you shops that a particular community of developers built, on a platform with its own agencies, its own extension market and its own upgrade cycle. Anyone selling into that community, whether payment gateways, shipping integrations, hosting, security services or migration work, is looking for exactly this intersection rather than for either list on its own.

The entry itself is straightforward. VirtueMart is GPL v2 software written in PHP, and our record for it begins in 2004. As of October 2026 we detect it on 128 sites. Longevity is the thing to notice in that pairing. Code with a history that long, still being served today, is usually present because it works and because replacing it would mean rebuilding the catalogue, the checkout and the theme at the same moment, on a live store, with orders still arriving.

Age also sets up the caveat. Detection of an extension depends on visible traces, template paths, form markup and asset URLs, and a heavily customised or aggressively cached store can suppress all of them. Shops sitting behind a full page cache, or ones whose frontend has been rebuilt as a separate application talking to the old backend, will be undercounted. Those tend to be the busier stores, which means the bias runs in a particular direction rather than scattering randomly.

The skew is worth stating rather than hiding, because it changes what the list is good for. As a target set for services it is strong, since conventional deployments are exactly the ones where an agency or a vendor can still be useful, and where an ageing installation is a live problem somebody would pay to solve. As a measure of total category share it is conservative and should be read that way.

A per domain lookup would tell you about one shop, which is rarely the question anybody actually has. The download tells you where an entire ageing storefront ecosystem still runs, which domains carry it, under which top level domains they sit, and how the population thins or holds steady between crawls. Decline in a list like this is information too. Watching which stores drop off and what replaces them is a migration study that no single lookup could ever produce.