Is Docusaurus or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 163 use Docusaurus and 463 use Substack.

Does Docusaurus or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Docusaurus sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Docusaurus: 71, Substack: 32).

Is Docusaurus or Substack growing faster?

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

Can a site use both Docusaurus and Substack?

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

Where does this Docusaurus 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.

Docusaurus vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Docusaurus 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	Docusaurus	Substack
Websites	163	463
Market share	0.03%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.00%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#75	#45

Median DR	71	32

Average DR	62	34

Median keywords	798	957

Median referring domains	1,281	435

Median domain age	8 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	9 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	18,462	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	3,009,363	119,740,796

diagrams.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords5,168
Referring Domains15,459
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)432,588
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDocusaurus
reactnative.dev
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords14,813
Referring Domains15,619
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)236,946
Traffic Trend
Technology
drawio.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords10,581
Referring Domains5,239
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)191,324
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDocusaurus
pcsx2.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords6,695
Referring Domains7,059
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)182,967
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDocusaurus
docs.databricks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords13,162
Referring Domains5,151
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)138,361
Traffic Trend
Technology
playwright.dev
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords23,049
Referring Domains7,930
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)109,258
Traffic Trend
Technology
cucumber.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords2,193
Referring Domains4,667
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)90,679
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDocusaurus
jellyfin.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords9,021
Referring Domains7,125
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)80,669
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDocusaurus
helm.sh
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords4,272
Referring Domains10,900
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)69,080
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDocusaurus
electronjs.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,550
Referring Domains13,032
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)68,741
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
diagrams.net	English	81	5,168	15,459	16 yrs	432,588		Docusaurus

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