Is bbPress or Substack more popular?

bbPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 644 use bbPress and 463 use Substack.

Does bbPress or Substack have higher-authority sites?

bbPress and Substack sites have a similar median Ahrefs Domain Rating.

Is bbPress or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, bbPress went from 0.09% to 0.07% 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 bbPress and Substack?

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

Where does this bbPress 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.

bbPress vs Substack — Site Stats Database

bbPress 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	bbPress	Substack
Websites	644	463
Market share	0.13%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#36	#45

Median DR	32	32

Average DR	34	34

Median keywords	983	957

Median referring domains	647	435

Median domain age	14 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	16 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	23,115	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	14,885,786	119,740,796

theburntbuttertable.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords26,920
Referring Domains558
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,165,499
Traffic Trend
TechnologybbPress
nbadraft.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords43,473
Referring Domains6,304
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)737,936
Traffic Trend
TechnologybbPress
road.cc
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords63,533
Referring Domains24,389
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)608,354
Traffic Trend
TechnologybbPress
boards.weddingbee.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords209,215
Referring Domains3,491
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)579,900
Traffic Trend
Technology
theyeshivaworld.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords16,324
Referring Domains20,619
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)421,261
Traffic Trend
Technology
pomeranian.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)39
Total Keywords5,624
Referring Domains1,506
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)378,958
Traffic Trend
Technology
aa-intergroup.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords7,107
Referring Domains3,027
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)343,067
Traffic Trend
Technology
scaquarium.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords11,077
Referring Domains3,089
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)333,796
Traffic Trend
Technology
rpgfan.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords29,366
Referring Domains5,611
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)313,356
Traffic Trend
TechnologybbPress
prisonfellowship.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords8,759
Referring Domains5,861
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)275,290
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
theburntbuttertable.com	English	33	26,920	558	4 yrs	1,165,499		bbPress

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