Is Drupal or Substack more popular?

Drupal is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,040 use Drupal and 463 use Substack.

Does Drupal or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Drupal sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Drupal: 59, Substack: 32).

Is Drupal or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Drupal went from 1.7% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05%. Substack is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Drupal and Substack?

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

Where does this Drupal 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.

Drupal vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Drupal 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	Drupal	Substack
Websites	12,040	463
Market share	2.3%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	5.3%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#7	#45

Median DR	59	32

Average DR	54	34

Median keywords	1,775	957

Median referring domains	1,669	435

Median domain age	23 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	21 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	316,310	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	3,808,378,350	119,740,796

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

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