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The Metal Store Top 5% worldwide Top 5% in United Kingdom Top 1% in Building Materials Top 5% in Building Materials in United Kingdom
themetalstore.co.uk·🇬🇧 United Kingdom·Since 2011

The Metal Store: 118k visits a month, 29 active Meta ads, Gravity score 663.

The Metal Store — The Metal Store is an online supplier of metal and steel products serving UK industry and consumers, offering a wide range of quality, affordable metal products with free delivery over £199. In September 2026 themetalstore.co.uk drew an estimated 118k visits, up 20% on the month before. It ranks #39 of 1,674 Building Materials brands in United Kingdom and holds a 3.4 Trustpilot rating over 99 reviews.

themetalstore.co.uk@themetalstoreuk 5.9kYouTube 5kFacebookLinkedIn 804Trustpilot 3.4Meta Ad Library 29

Updated Traffic Sept 2026Meta ads 7 Oct 2026Google ads 20 Oct 2026Trustpilot Oct 2026Gravity score 2 Nov 2026

Estimated traffic
118k
+20% vs. August 2026
Instagram followers
5.9k
633 posts · @themetalstoreuk
Trustpilot
3.4
99 reviews · 6 in 12 months
Meta ads
29
active · on Google since 2021
Products
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Rank in United Kingdom
#39
of 1,674 in Building Materials
LinkedIn
804
followers · 21 employees
Earned media value
€104.2
per month, Instagram

Gravity score

663/ 1000 · 9 of 10 indicators rated
Brand Power566
Momentum814
Performance610

Percentiles within 47 peers: Building Materials brands in United Kingdom with 100K–1M monthly visits. Recomputed nightly, last on 2 Nov 2026.

How the score is calculated

About the store

The Metal Store is an online supplier of metal and steel products serving UK industry and consumers, offering a wide range of quality, affordable metal products with free delivery over £199.

01 · Traffic

How much traffic The Metal Store gets.

The traffic card of the Gravity brand page: the latest month and its two trends. The monthly curve, 24 months of history, the audience by country, the traffic sources and the category comparison are for members, free to start.

The Metal Store drew an estimated 118k visits in September 2026, up 20% on the month before and up 27% over three months.

  • Worldwide#81,773of 4.5m sites · Top 5%
  • In United Kingdom#4,200of 192k sites · Top 5%
  • Building Materials, worldwide#450of 90,845 brands · Top 1%
  • Building Materials, United Kingdom#39of 1,674 brands · Top 5%
Monthly visitssource Sept 2026

118k

estimated visits in September

1 mo ▲ +19.9%4 mo ▲ +27.0%

The monthly curve, 24 months of history and the category comparison.

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02 · Reviews

What customers say about The Metal Store.

The review cards of the Gravity brand page: the Trustpilot page, with its star distribution and the brand's tiers against the index, and the Google reviews. The TrustScore history and the review velocity against the category are for signed-in members.

The Metal Store holds 3.4 out of 5 on Trustpilot over 99 reviews, 6 of them in the last twelve months: 66% of customers give five stars and 17% one star. That volume places The Metal Store in the top 30% of the 270,321 Trustpilot pages in the Gravity index.

Trustpilotclaimed page · read 21 Oct 2026
3.4TrustScore · 99 reviews · 6 in 12 months
Top 30% review volume
5 ★66%
4 ★7%
3 ★7%
2 ★3%
1 ★17%

Tool Manufacturer Tool Store

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Review velocity, TrustScore history and the category comparison are on the Gravity brand page.

03 · Products

What The Metal Store sells, ranked by sales.

The top three products in the catalogue, in the store's own best-seller order, with price and stock. The full catalogue, the rankings over time and the ads that lead to each product are for signed-in members.

Gravity by Benchr has not read The Metal Store's catalogue yet.

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Share of the catalogue by product family.

Activity mixdominant: Building Materials
Building Materials82%
Hardware Accessories4%
Plumbing2%

The dominant category places The Metal Store in its comparison group.

Prices and ratingsstore data
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05 · Influencers

Who talks about The Metal Store.

The creators who tag @themetalstoreuk on Instagram, found by Gravity by Benchr in their posts. One is shown here; the full list, the audiences and the contact details are for signed-in members.

Creators tag @themetalstoreuk on Instagram, led by Outhouse (29.4k followers, 1.1% engagement).

Influencersaccounts tagging @themetalstoreuk · Instagram
AccountProfileFollowersEngagementTagsRelationship
OOuthouse@outhouse_byhand · 🇬🇧 GBDecoration garden diy Creator29.4k1.1%1Tagged @themetalstoreuk
Engagement is the median of recent posts.See all

06 · Competitors according to Gravity

Who The Metal Store competes with, by the numbers.

Gravity picks competitors from the index itself: same category, same market, similar size. The closest are named here; their figures, the full list and the side-by-side comparison are for subscribers.

Gravity by Benchr finds competitors for The Metal Store among Building Materials brands in United Kingdom. The closest is Metals4U, then Metals Depot, Online Metals, Metal Store, Stahl-Shop24, alro.com.

CompetitorsBuilding Materials · United Kingdom · similarity out of 100
BrandSimilarityGravity scoreEst. trafficInstagramTrustpilotMeta adsProducts
Metals4Umetals4u.co.uk
Metals Depotmetalsdepot.com
Online Metalsonlinemetals.com
Metal Storemetalsupermarkets.com
Stahl-Shop24stahl-shop24.de
alro.comalro.com
Competitors Gravity finds for The Metal Store. Similarity, Gravity score, traffic, social, reviews, ads and catalogue are for subscribers.Compare The Metal Store with Metals4U

07 · Company

The company behind The Metal Store.

Legal entity, funding and distribution, as the Company tab of the Gravity brand page shows them. Where Gravity has nothing on file, the line says so rather than disappearing.

The Metal Store is a company based in United Kingdom, founded in 2009 according to LinkedIn, on a domain registered in February 2011. It employs about 21 people.

Legal entityGravity index, Nov 2026
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Entity country
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Founded
2009, per LinkedIn
Domain registered
23 Feb 2011
Share capital
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President
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Activity code
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Employees
21 on LinkedIn
FundingGravity index, Nov 2026
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Investors
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VC-backed
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DistributionGravity index, Nov 2026
Own store
themetalstore.co.uk
Catalogue
Data not available
Retailers
None recorded
Open jobs
None recorded

08 · What people ask about The Metal Store

What people ask Google about The Metal Store.

8 answers built from the data on this page, each one sourced to Gravity by Benchr, which say so when we don't know.

Is The Metal Store a legit company?

According to Gravity by Benchr, The Metal Store is a brand based in United Kingdom: its website has existed since February 2011, its Trustpilot profile is claimed by the brand, it employs 21 people on LinkedIn, it has 5,893 Instagram followers. Those are the marks of an established brand, not a pop-up shop. Source: Gravity by Benchr brand index, November 2026.

The Metal Store reviews

Customers rate The Metal Store 3.4 out of 5 on Trustpilot over 99 reviews, 6 of them in the last twelve months: 66% give five stars, 17% one star. Gravity by Benchr places that review volume in the top 30% of the 270,321 Trustpilot pages in its index. Source: Gravity by Benchr Trustpilot reading, October 2026.

What does The Metal Store sell?

The Metal Store is an online supplier of metal and steel products serving UK industry and consumers, offering a wide range of quality, affordable metal products with free delivery over £199. Gravity by Benchr classifies it under Building Materials. Source: Gravity by Benchr product classification.

The Metal Store promo code

Gravity by Benchr does not collect discount codes. What Gravity observes: The Metal Store advertises on Facebook and Instagram and on Google, where its offers often run. Check themetalstore.co.uk for current promotions. Source: Gravity by Benchr ad records, October 2026.

Who is behind The Metal Store?

Gravity by Benchr records a company based in United Kingdom, founded in 2009 according to LinkedIn, on a domain registered in 2011, with 21 employees on LinkedIn. Gravity publishes no personal data about founders. Source: Gravity by Benchr company records, November 2026.

Is The Metal Store growing?

Yes. Gravity by Benchr estimates about 117,700 visits to themetalstore.co.uk in September 2026, up 20% in a month and up 27% over three months. The Metal Store ranks #39 of 1,674 Building Materials brands in United Kingdom in the Gravity index. Source: Gravity by Benchr estimated traffic, September 2026.

How much does The Metal Store spend on Meta ads?

Gravity by Benchr does not publish a spend figure for The Metal Store on this page. What Gravity observes: an active Meta advertiser, on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Audience Network, Threads. The estimated monthly spend band, derived from the EU reach of each ad, is on the Gravity brand page. Source: Gravity by Benchr Meta Ad Library records, October 2026.

Who are the biggest Building Materials brands in United Kingdom?

Among Building Materials brands in United Kingdom in the Gravity by Benchr index, The Metal Store ranks #39 of 1,674 by estimated traffic. Its closest competitors on the same market are Metals4U, Metals Depot, Online Metals, Metal Store and Stahl-Shop24. Source: Gravity by Benchr competitor analysis, same category, same market, similar size, November 2026.

Gravity by Benchr indexes more than 4 million e-commerce brands across 150 countries. Figures on this page are estimates, updated monthly; the Gravity score is recomputed nightly. Not affiliated with The Metal Store.