Is Discourse or Hugo more popular?

Hugo is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 1,068 use Hugo.

Does Discourse or Hugo have higher-authority sites?

Discourse sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Discourse: 48, Hugo: 39).

Is Discourse or Hugo growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Hugo went from 0.14% to 0.12%. Discourse is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Discourse and Hugo?

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

Where does this Discourse vs Hugo 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.

Discourse vs Hugo — Site Stats Database

Discourse vs Hugo

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	Discourse	Hugo
Websites	269	1,068
Market share	0.05%	0.21%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.07%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#69	#27

Median DR	48	39

Average DR	50	41

Median keywords	3,595	887

Median referring domains	1,086	561

Median domain age	13 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	79,622	43,550

Combined monthly traffic	21,418,355	46,511,181

community.spiceworks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords465,342
Referring Domains14,030
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,262,143
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDiscourse
boards.straightdope.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords424,843
Referring Domains10,457
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,665,970
Traffic Trend
Technology
talk.collegeconfidential.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords320,981
Referring Domains5,129
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,188,111
Traffic Trend
Technology
devforum.roblox.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords53,918
Referring Domains13,212
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,055,850
Traffic Trend
Technology
hungryonion.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)37
Total Keywords117,123
Referring Domains3,109
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)927,939
Traffic Trend
Technology
community.cartalk.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords179,057
Referring Domains2,154
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)690,215
Traffic Trend
Technology
growingfruit.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords81,071
Referring Domains1,453
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)631,018
Traffic Trend
Technology
t-nation.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords165,670
Referring Domains12,051
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)519,271
Traffic Trend
Technology
eyefi.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords21,811
Referring Domains2,398
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)468,464
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDiscourse
elitefourum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords42,741
Referring Domains1,332
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)456,968
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
community.spiceworks.com	English	87	465,342	14,030	28 yrs	2,262,143		Discourse

wumbo.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords39,007
Referring Domains1,229
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,922,257
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
clerk.chat
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords23,105
Referring Domains1,495
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,892,917
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
ropensci.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords2,103
Referring Domains4,218
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,018,439
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
wvu.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords178,823
Referring Domains46,225
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,912,529
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
git-scm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords25,518
Referring Domains85,916
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,768,595
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
brave.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords32,872
Referring Domains59,082
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,164,895
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
pgealerts.alerts.pge.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords7,782
Referring Domains1,225
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,038,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
exceljet.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords50,278
Referring Domains7,394
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)940,958
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
oliveandmango.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords52,730
Referring Domains1,450
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)935,286
Traffic Trend
Technology
freegames.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords6,944
Referring Domains3,003
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)757,716
Traffic Trend
Technology