Is BuddyPress or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 200 use BuddyPress and 463 use Substack.

Does BuddyPress or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Substack sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (BuddyPress: 27, Substack: 32).

Is BuddyPress or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, BuddyPress went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05%. BuddyPress is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both BuddyPress and Substack?

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

Where does this BuddyPress vs Substack 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.

BuddyPress vs Substack — Site Stats Database

BuddyPress vs Substack

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	BuddyPress	Substack
Websites	200	463
Market share	0.04%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.00%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#72	#45

Median DR	27	32

Average DR	28	34

Median keywords	903	957

Median referring domains	573	435

Median domain age	12 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	13 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	15,908	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	3,181,552	119,740,796

raceraves.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords45,439
Referring Domains1,439
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)599,179
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBuddyPress
thefamilydinnerproject.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords6,301
Referring Domains3,269
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)229,400
Traffic Trend
Technology
indianaaudubon.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)45
Total Keywords5,550
Referring Domains896
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)199,830
Traffic Trend
Technology
jordanseasyentertaining.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords7,124
Referring Domains1,662
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)194,622
Traffic Trend
Technology
tastykitchen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords107,019
Referring Domains21,776
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)165,800
Traffic Trend
Technology
filmcolossus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)28
Total Keywords10,170
Referring Domains1,074
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)109,829
Traffic Trend
Technology
getaprofessor.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)2.1
Total Keywords2,891
Referring Domains86
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)76,745
Traffic Trend
Technology
lakecity.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords3,053
Referring Domains759
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)61,686
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBuddyPress
pedagogue.app
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords19,318
Referring Domains1,875
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)53,640
Traffic Trend
Technology
ecotourism.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords269
Referring Domains4,219
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)50,815
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
raceraves.com	English	53	45,439	1,439	12 yrs	599,179		BuddyPress

cbsnews.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords5,029,881
Referring Domains486,461
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)59,376,408
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
substack.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords5,643,513
Referring Domains561,764
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,156,090
Traffic Trend
Technology
thefp.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords39,018
Referring Domains17,521
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)738,323
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
azdesertswarm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords11,126
Referring Domains6,455
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)664,536
Traffic Trend
Technology
thebulwark.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords23,103
Referring Domains13,098
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,028
Traffic Trend
Technology
brokenpalate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)40
Total Keywords3,164
Referring Domains295
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)214,374
Traffic Trend
Technology
r-bloggers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords27,627
Referring Domains8,306
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)212,820
Traffic Trend
Technology
donaldrobertson.name
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)45
Total Keywords1,679
Referring Domains874
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)202,345
Traffic Trend
Technology
noahpinion.blog
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords10,103
Referring Domains5,453
Domain Age3 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,978
Traffic Trend
Technology
jonathanlack.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)11
Total Keywords6,130
Referring Domains697
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,145
Traffic Trend
Technology