Is Big Cartel or WordPress more popular?

WordPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 292 use Big Cartel and 267,619 use WordPress.

Does Big Cartel or WordPress have higher-authority sites?

Big Cartel sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Big Cartel: 27, WordPress: 26).

Is Big Cartel or WordPress growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Big Cartel went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while WordPress went from 35% to 30%. Big Cartel is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Big Cartel and WordPress?

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

Where does this Big Cartel vs WordPress 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 WordPress — Site Stats Database

Big Cartel vs WordPress

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	WordPress
Websites	292	267,619
Market share	0.06%	52%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	16%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#65	#1

Median DR	27	26

Average DR	29	28

Median keywords	485	921

Median referring domains	317	350

Median domain age	13 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	22,442	52,075

Combined monthly traffic	6,553,058	13,936,359,016

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

rottentomatoes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords4,123,803
Referring Domains130,919
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)626,896,769
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
nytimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords9,214,622
Referring Domains1,473,314
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)256,700,108
Traffic Trend
Technology
dictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords3,387,790
Referring Domains129,246
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,622,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
healthline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords7,041,614
Referring Domains458,961
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)220,346,497
Traffic Trend
Technology
thesaurus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords1,253,792
Referring Domains42,419
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)206,651,155
Traffic Trend
Technology
akc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords655,094
Referring Domains78,973
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,727,029
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
harvard.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords3,845,102
Referring Domains714,396
Domain Age41 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)104,117,233
Traffic Trend
Technology
inchcalculator.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords756,682
Referring Domains16,163
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)89,221,177
Traffic Trend
Technology
biblegateway.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords965,722
Referring Domains185,253
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,990,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
nasa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords977,872
Referring Domains485,459
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,000,277
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress