Is BigCommerce or WordPress more popular?

WordPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 8,248 use BigCommerce and 267,619 use WordPress.

Does BigCommerce or WordPress have higher-authority sites?

WordPress sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (BigCommerce: 17, WordPress: 26).

Is BigCommerce or WordPress growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, BigCommerce went from 1.3% to 0.94% of all tracked sites, while WordPress went from 35% to 30%. BigCommerce is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both BigCommerce and WordPress?

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

Where does this BigCommerce 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.

BigCommerce vs WordPress — Site Stats Database

BigCommerce 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	BigCommerce	WordPress
Websites	8,248	267,619
Market share	1.6%	52%
Share of top 10K sites	0.33%	16%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#9	#1

Median DR	17	26

Average DR	20	28

Median keywords	1,435	921

Median referring domains	189	350

Median domain age	17 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	17 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	41,104	52,075

Combined monthly traffic	339,026,760	13,936,359,016

geappliances.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords172,944
Referring Domains18,787
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,996,400
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBigCommerce
bicyclecards.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords24,942
Referring Domains8,199
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,964,663
Traffic Trend
Technology
flagsexpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)28
Total Keywords17,675
Referring Domains887
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,330,342
Traffic Trend
Technology
simplicity.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords31,877
Referring Domains8,115
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,740,144
Traffic Trend
Technology
abcfws.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords131,783
Referring Domains5,291
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,685,137
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBigCommerce
smith-wesson.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords21,777
Referring Domains8,373
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,214,477
Traffic Trend
Technology
shop.kingarthurbaking.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords37,125
Referring Domains3,994
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,011,933
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.thermoworks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords63,073
Referring Domains6,162
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,738,240
Traffic Trend
Technology
delallo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords51,433
Referring Domains4,510
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,713,019
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBigCommerce
playitagainsports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords126,101
Referring Domains5,259
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,709,271
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
geappliances.com	English	79	172,944	18,787	29 yrs	5,996,400		BigCommerce

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
TechnologyWordPress
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