Is Brightspot or WordPress more popular?

WordPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 379 use Brightspot and 267,619 use WordPress.

Does Brightspot or WordPress have higher-authority sites?

Brightspot sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Brightspot: 67, WordPress: 26).

Is Brightspot or WordPress growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Brightspot went from 0.06% to 0.04% of all tracked sites, while WordPress went from 35% to 30%. Brightspot is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Brightspot and WordPress?

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

Where does this Brightspot 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.

Brightspot vs WordPress — Site Stats Database

Brightspot 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	Brightspot	WordPress
Websites	379	267,619
Market share	0.07%	52%
Share of top 10K sites	0.30%	16%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#54	#1

Median DR	67	26

Average DR	64	28

Median keywords	6,502	921

Median referring domains	3,991	350

Median domain age	26 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	558,049	52,075

Combined monthly traffic	211,500,480	13,936,359,016

nbc.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords474,769
Referring Domains134,989
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)26,422,376
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBrightspot
apnews.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,758,556
Referring Domains311,197
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)23,774,080
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBrightspot
about.google
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords34,476
Referring Domains69,308
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)22,801,007
Traffic Trend
Technology
latimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords2,040,663
Referring Domains458,128
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)21,182,750
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBrightspot
nbcsports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,111,697
Referring Domains151,583
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,695,623
Traffic Trend
Technology
android.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords203,716
Referring Domains183,277
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,598,406
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBrightspot
byu.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords387,008
Referring Domains85,741
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,595,649
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBrightspot
safety.google
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords22,360
Referring Domains415,327
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,175,936
Traffic Trend
Technology
golfpass.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords272,076
Referring Domains9,562
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,602,004
Traffic Trend
Technology
google.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords1,637
Referring Domains24,951
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,579,423
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBrightspot

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nbc.com	English	86	474,769	134,989	29 yrs	26,422,376		Brightspot

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