Is Arc XP or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 366 use Arc XP and 463 use Substack.

Does Arc XP or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Arc XP sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Arc XP: 71, Substack: 32).

Is Arc XP or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Arc XP went from 0.06% to 0.04% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05%. Substack is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Arc XP and Substack?

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Arc XP and Substack are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Arc XP vs Substack data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Arc XP vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Arc XP vs Substack

A side-by-side comparison of two content management systems, based on the 515,058 CMS sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Arc XP	Substack
Websites	366	463
Market share	0.07%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.45%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#57	#45

Median DR	71	32

Average DR	62	34

Median keywords	7,234	957

Median referring domains	6,826	435

Median domain age	25 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	23 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	380,464	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	139,250,000	119,740,796

tsn.ca
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords296,114
Referring Domains49,476
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,258,913
Traffic Trend
TechnologyArc XP
wbay.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords88,425
Referring Domains12,474
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,525,338
Traffic Trend
TechnologyArc XP
ksat.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords279,906
Referring Domains31,425
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,699,419
Traffic Trend
TechnologyArc XP
clickondetroit.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords198,962
Referring Domains37,155
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,331,222
Traffic Trend
Technology
wfsb.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords138,707
Referring Domains15,155
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,692,815
Traffic Trend
TechnologyArc XP
bostonglobe.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords315,949
Referring Domains134,260
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,349,098
Traffic Trend
Technology
news4jax.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords133,524
Referring Domains31,286
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,177,622
Traffic Trend
Technology
kctv5.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords148,688
Referring Domains16,216
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,161,232
Traffic Trend
TechnologyArc XP
deseret.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords338,715
Referring Domains47,513
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,057,729
Traffic Trend
TechnologyArc XP
dawgnation.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)60
Total Keywords20,052
Referring Domains4,519
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,985,569
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
tsn.ca	English	78	296,114	49,476	25 yrs	10,258,913		Arc XP

cbsnews.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords5,029,881
Referring Domains486,461
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)59,376,408
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
substack.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords5,643,513
Referring Domains561,764
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,156,090
Traffic Trend
Technology
thefp.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords39,018
Referring Domains17,521
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)738,323
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
azdesertswarm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords11,126
Referring Domains6,455
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)664,536
Traffic Trend
Technology
thebulwark.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords23,103
Referring Domains13,098
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,028
Traffic Trend
Technology
brokenpalate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)40
Total Keywords3,164
Referring Domains295
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)214,374
Traffic Trend
Technology
r-bloggers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords27,627
Referring Domains8,306
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)212,820
Traffic Trend
Technology
donaldrobertson.name
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)45
Total Keywords1,679
Referring Domains874
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)202,345
Traffic Trend
Technology
noahpinion.blog
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords10,103
Referring Domains5,453
Domain Age3 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,978
Traffic Trend
Technology
jonathanlack.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)11
Total Keywords6,130
Referring Domains697
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,145
Traffic Trend
Technology