Is Discourse or Squarespace more popular?

Squarespace is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 19,898 use Squarespace.

Does Discourse or Squarespace have higher-authority sites?

Discourse sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Discourse: 48, Squarespace: 19).

Is Discourse or Squarespace growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Squarespace went from 2.0% to 2.3%. Squarespace is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Discourse and Squarespace?

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

Where does this Discourse vs Squarespace 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 Squarespace — Site Stats Database

Discourse vs Squarespace

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	Squarespace
Websites	269	19,898
Market share	0.05%	3.9%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.19%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#69	#5

Median DR	48	19

Average DR	50	22

Median keywords	3,595	561

Median referring domains	1,086	149

Median domain age	13 yrs	10 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	79,622	20,958

Combined monthly traffic	21,418,355	417,015,137

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

squarespace.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords1,147,898
Referring Domains1,352,006
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,906,214
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
hillspet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords206,722
Referring Domains21,021
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,886,872
Traffic Trend
Technology
noahlangphotography.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords28,156
Referring Domains884
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,838,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
pixar.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords25,185
Referring Domains25,736
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,138,006
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
chelseamarket.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords11,374
Referring Domains6,291
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,388,094
Traffic Trend
Technology
bookishwayfarer.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)19
Total Keywords10,518
Referring Domains147
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,351,646
Traffic Trend
Technology
mashupmath.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords51,645
Referring Domains2,099
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,276,104
Traffic Trend
Technology
pressedcafe.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords11,722
Referring Domains667
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,955,466
Traffic Trend
Technology
treelinereview.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords91,103
Referring Domains2,371
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,812,606
Traffic Trend
Technology
1992sharetea.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords12,862
Referring Domains1,572
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,550,991
Traffic Trend
Technology