Is Finalsite or Substack more popular?

Finalsite is used by more websites in our catalog: 701 use Finalsite and 463 use Substack.

Does Finalsite or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Finalsite sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Finalsite: 41, Substack: 32).

Is Finalsite or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Finalsite went from 0.10% to 0.08% 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 Finalsite and Substack?

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

Where does this Finalsite 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.

Finalsite vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Finalsite 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	Finalsite	Substack
Websites	701	463
Market share	0.14%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#33	#45

Median DR	41	32

Average DR	41	34

Median keywords	1,521	957

Median referring domains	908	435

Median domain age	24 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	64,178	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	44,988,806	119,740,796

browardschools.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords30,411
Referring Domains9,327
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,072,407
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
cfisd.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords15,242
Referring Domains4,432
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)766,657
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
pcsb.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords21,962
Referring Domains5,097
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)752,849
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
cmsk12.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords19,809
Referring Domains3,584
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)746,797
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
houstonisd.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords20,296
Referring Domains14,902
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)733,144
Traffic Trend
Technology
palmbeachschools.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords22,241
Referring Domains5,291
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)695,828
Traffic Trend
Technology
jeffcopublicschools.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords14,990
Referring Domains3,198
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)692,036
Traffic Trend
Technology
ocfsd.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)29
Total Keywords1,685
Referring Domains556
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)652,711
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
vcsedu.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)55
Total Keywords8,967
Referring Domains2,479
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)558,356
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
wcpss.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords14,362
Referring Domains7,628
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)507,023
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
browardschools.com	English	73	30,411	9,327	29 yrs	1,072,407		Finalsite

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