BigCommerce China

Learn How BigCommerce Performs in China. Reduces your page-load time in China; All you need to know about Commerce Techs performance in China.

By the 21YunBox China Engineering Team · Reviewed 2026-08-28 · Measured from inside mainland China

Does BigCommerce work in China?

BigCommerce was reachable on all three attempts from mainland China. Measured fact: from a probe inside mainland China (Alibaba Cloud cn-zhangjiakou), three runs, 2026-08-28, three of three runs completed, first byte in a median 817ms and paint at 2.2s. A storefront platform loading is the easy half; the checkout is the half that decides revenue, and it typically depends on a payment gateway, a fraud script and a font host that each resolve separately. In this same run a payment gateway and two script CDNs did not complete at all.

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What we measured for BigCommerce from inside China

Fact	Primary source
Requested from a probe inside mainland China (Alibaba Cloud cn-zhangjiakou) on 2026-08-28, BigCommerce finished loading on every one of 3 attempts; first byte arrived in a median 817ms and the largest contentful paint at 2,212ms.	21YunBox — 280-site China delivery census, measured from inside mainland China

Sources verified by the 21YunBox China engineering team on 2026-08-28.

How BigCommerce storefronts reach Chinese shoppers

Over 90% of BigCommerce sites take 30+ seconds to load in China and are missing 20%+ of its content.

BigCommerce does not have any servers or CDNs in China as a result, websites using BigCommerce either won’t open or are extremely slow in China, as the speed test below shows.

BigCommerce does not work out-of-the-box in China

If you are using BigCommerce as a headless platform in China, you will find that popular platforms commonly used to host BigCommerce, don’t work in China. As a result, most BigCommerce sites either won’t open or are extremely slow in China.

Most of these platforms including Netlify and Vercel, are unstable in China due to the Great Firewall of China and other legal issues.

ABOUT BigCommerce

Founded in 2009, BigCommerce is an ecommerce platform. The company’s platform includes online store creation, search engine optimization, hosting, and marketing and security for small to enterprise businesses.

Like Shopify, BigCommerce is a fully-managed SaaS product. Both platforms offer tailored, powerful solutions, but BigCommerce is equipped to handle larger scale omnichannel growth.

BigCommerce has spent the last two years heavily investing in headless commerce functionality, focusing on building an open, flexible, API-first platform. As a result, its platform has become a popular choice for companies looking to modernize to a JAMStack headless storefront.

In 2022, Builtwith.com awarded BigCommerce as the 8th most popular in the Top 1 Million sites in Hosted Solution category with over 50,000 users worldwide.

Global brands such as Four Pillars, Yeti Cycles, and Skullcandy trust BigCommerce with their global storefronts.