Is Big Cartel or DNN more popular?

DNN is used by more websites in our catalog: 292 use Big Cartel and 2,281 use DNN.

Does Big Cartel or DNN have higher-authority sites?

Big Cartel sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Big Cartel: 27, DNN: 2).

Is Big Cartel or DNN growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Big Cartel went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while DNN went from 0.09% to 0.26%. DNN is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Big Cartel and DNN?

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Big Cartel and DNN are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Big Cartel vs DNN 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.

Big Cartel vs DNN — Site Stats Database

Big Cartel vs DNN

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	Big Cartel	DNN
Websites	292	2,281
Market share	0.06%	0.44%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.06%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#65	#21

Median DR	27	2

Average DR	29	12

Median keywords	485	351

Median referring domains	317	76

Median domain age	13 yrs	16 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	16 yrs

Average monthly traffic	22,442	23,777

Combined monthly traffic	6,553,058	54,235,042

kentuckytourism.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords58,860
Referring Domains7,449
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,770,649
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBig Cartel
tattooswizard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)44
Total Keywords37,024
Referring Domains1,932
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)570,198
Traffic Trend
Technology
motorcitycomiccon.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords6,173
Referring Domains1,339
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)169,173
Traffic Trend
Technology
hollywoodtheatre.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords5,766
Referring Domains2,560
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)162,312
Traffic Trend
Technology
masqueradeatlanta.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords10,151
Referring Domains2,277
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)150,803
Traffic Trend
Technology
lawsofux.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords1,520
Referring Domains3,638
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)146,712
Traffic Trend
Technology
kittenrescue.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)55
Total Keywords5,514
Referring Domains1,587
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)142,440
Traffic Trend
Technology
phillymagicgardens.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords2,200
Referring Domains2,713
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)136,890
Traffic Trend
Technology
levelman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords7,829
Referring Domains1,525
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)97,861
Traffic Trend
Technology
pittsburghsymphony.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords4,146
Referring Domains3,004
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)95,557
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
kentuckytourism.com	English	72	58,860	7,449	26 yrs	1,770,649		Big Cartel

missouribotanicalgarden.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords208,151
Referring Domains17,942
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,157,778
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN
columbusga.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords27,886
Referring Domains3,023
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,616,858
Traffic Trend
Technology
wildlife.ca.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords90,364
Referring Domains12,230
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,139,887
Traffic Trend
Technology
socialworkers.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords47,656
Referring Domains12,447
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,341,559
Traffic Trend
Technology
harriscountytx.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords54,769
Referring Domains9,524
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,191,893
Traffic Trend
Technology
ocfl.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords45,542
Referring Domains5,199
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,111,696
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN
aacnnursing.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords26,307
Referring Domains10,152
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)832,069
Traffic Trend
Technology
orangecountyfl.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords40,767
Referring Domains6,346
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)803,221
Traffic Trend
Technology
hctx.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords36,755
Referring Domains4,954
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)768,923
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN
occc.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords4,612
Referring Domains2,712
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)740,222
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN