By Connor Hart


Shopify said merchants recorded $14.6 billion in global sales over the Black Friday to Cyber Monday weekend, marking a 27% increase from last year.

Sales peaked at just after noon ET on Black Friday, reaching $5.1 million per minute, the web hosting company said Tuesday.

Shopify provides tools such as payment processing and inventory management for merchants to sell products online. It started as a way for small businesses to have an e-commerce storefront but has also attracted larger retailers.

More than 81 million customers worldwide bought from Shopify-powered brands, the company said, with popular categories including cosmetics, apparel, and health and wellness. Shoppers' average cart size was $114.70, and the most sales came from the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany and Canada.

Throughout the weekend, Shopify's infrastructure processed 2.2 trillion edge requests and served 90 petabytes of data, handling 14.8 trillion database queries and 1.75 trillion database writes.

Traffic proved to be too much at times. Shopify experienced an outage on Cyber Monday that affected select stores, which resulted in some administration interfaces such as point-of-sale systems being temporarily unavailable. The company said the situation had been resolved by Monday evening.


Write to Connor Hart at connor.hart@wsj.com


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