Is CivicPlus or Substack more popular?

CivicPlus is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,425 use CivicPlus and 463 use Substack.

Does CivicPlus or Substack have higher-authority sites?

CivicPlus sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (CivicPlus: 42, Substack: 32).

Is CivicPlus or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, CivicPlus went from 0.28% to 0.28% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05%. CivicPlus is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both CivicPlus and Substack?

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

Where does this CivicPlus 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.

CivicPlus vs Substack — Site Stats Database

CivicPlus 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	CivicPlus	Substack
Websites	2,425	463
Market share	0.47%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.08%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#20	#45

Median DR	42	32

Average DR	42	34

Median keywords	1,684	957

Median referring domains	713	435

Median domain age	19 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	16 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	82,587	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	200,274,290	119,740,796

maricopa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords129,540
Referring Domains15,708
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,003,517
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCivicPlus
sfrecpark.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords31,132
Referring Domains6,951
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,388,785
Traffic Trend
Technology
bexar.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords51,944
Referring Domains5,932
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,901,988
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCivicPlus
pima.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords80,523
Referring Domains11,130
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,664,086
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCivicPlus
charleston-sc.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords30,993
Referring Domains6,077
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,146,960
Traffic Trend
Technology
highpointnc.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords21,756
Referring Domains3,127
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,141,378
Traffic Trend
Technology
dallasparks.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords19,758
Referring Domains2,795
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,031,705
Traffic Trend
Technology
jeffco.us
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords37,990
Referring Domains6,613
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,018,550
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCivicPlus
anaheim.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords23,145
Referring Domains7,983
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)944,839
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCivicPlus
loudoun.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords58,359
Referring Domains8,864
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)903,165
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCivicPlus

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
maricopa.gov	English	80	129,540	15,708	28 yrs	3,003,517		CivicPlus

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 Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,145
Traffic Trend
Technology