Is Big Cartel or XenForo more popular?

XenForo is used by more websites in our catalog: 292 use Big Cartel and 2,198 use XenForo.

Does Big Cartel or XenForo have higher-authority sites?

Big Cartel sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Big Cartel: 27, XenForo: 21).

Is Big Cartel or XenForo growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Big Cartel went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while XenForo went from 0.35% to 0.25%. Big Cartel is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Big Cartel and XenForo?

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

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

Big Cartel vs XenForo

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	XenForo
Websites	292	2,198
Market share	0.06%	0.43%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.05%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#65	#22

Median DR	27	21

Average DR	29	23

Median keywords	485	2,881

Median referring domains	317	687

Median domain age	13 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	22,442	37,701

Combined monthly traffic	6,553,058	82,867,159

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

forum.wordreference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords947,575
Referring Domains18,031
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,231,153
Traffic Trend
TechnologyXenForo
forums.tomshardware.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords267,160
Referring Domains8,261
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,017,071
Traffic Trend
Technology
resetera.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords426,503
Referring Domains17,250
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,544,039
Traffic Trend
Technology
tacomaworld.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords130,378
Referring Domains8,691
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,236,765
Traffic Trend
Technology
forums.macrumors.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords256,677
Referring Domains27,674
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,089,447
Traffic Trend
Technology
sawmillcreek.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords200,878
Referring Domains3,259
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)887,559
Traffic Trend
Technology
pokecommunity.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords80,041
Referring Domains11,387
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)872,171
Traffic Trend
Technology
forums.tomsguide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords92,442
Referring Domains4,379
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)854,337
Traffic Trend
Technology
fanverse.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)31
Total Keywords102,730
Referring Domains3,315
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)784,926
Traffic Trend
Technology
diychatroom.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)42
Total Keywords370,008
Referring Domains21,830
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)756,977
Traffic Trend
Technology