Is Drupal or Ghost more popular?

Drupal is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,040 use Drupal and 775 use Ghost.

Does Drupal or Ghost have higher-authority sites?

Drupal sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Drupal: 59, Ghost: 34).

Is Drupal or Ghost growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Drupal went from 1.7% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09%. Ghost is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Drupal and Ghost?

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

Where does this Drupal vs Ghost 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.

Drupal vs Ghost — Site Stats Database

Drupal vs Ghost

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	Drupal	Ghost
Websites	12,040	775
Market share	2.3%	0.15%
Share of top 10K sites	5.3%	0.04%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#7	#31

Median DR	59	34

Average DR	54	35

Median keywords	1,775	997

Median referring domains	1,669	393

Median domain age	23 yrs	7 yrs

Average domain age	21 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	316,310	28,443

Combined monthly traffic	3,808,378,350	22,042,995

nih.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords8,823,555
Referring Domains1,431,267
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)449,766,532
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
worldometers.info
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords472,275
Referring Domains82,483
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)113,278,446
Traffic Trend
Technology
irs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords973,833
Referring Domains280,852
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)75,413,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
ny.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,725,638
Referring Domains197,908
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)73,119,082
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
usa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords733,178
Referring Domains140,078
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)68,698,972
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
europa.eu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords759,110
Referring Domains2,213,654
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)64,108,914
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
almanac.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords932,777
Referring Domains73,599
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)63,656,636
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
ncaa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords450,724
Referring Domains61,708
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)38,619,244
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
usgs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords678,250
Referring Domains186,469
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)37,752,864
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
wa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,323,378
Referring Domains154,980
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,128,393
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nih.gov	English	95	8,823,555	1,431,267	28 yrs	449,766,532		Drupal

allbud.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords81,210
Referring Domains4,878
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,897,288
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost
blog.duolingo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords48,347
Referring Domains7,397
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,884,812
Traffic Trend
Technology
bestfreestreaming.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)6
Total Keywords6,973
Referring Domains252
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,284,080
Traffic Trend
Technology
alisoneroman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords21,747
Referring Domains2,228
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,183,351
Traffic Trend
Technology
roadrunner.travel
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords40,115
Referring Domains3,357
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)845,158
Traffic Trend
Technology
retrododo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords47,167
Referring Domains8,068
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)818,794
Traffic Trend
Technology
wheelchairtravel.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords7,654
Referring Domains2,838
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)446,858
Traffic Trend
Technology
gamingtrend.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords49,133
Referring Domains7,940
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)396,941
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.gratefulness.me
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords40,731
Referring Domains4,386
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)354,956
Traffic Trend
Technology
exploros.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords44,249
Referring Domains924
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)334,928
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost