Is Gatsby or WordPress more popular?

WordPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,636 use Gatsby and 267,619 use WordPress.

Does Gatsby or WordPress have higher-authority sites?

Gatsby sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Gatsby: 52, WordPress: 26).

Is Gatsby or WordPress growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Gatsby went from 0.24% to 0.19% of all tracked sites, while WordPress went from 35% to 30%. Gatsby is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Gatsby and WordPress?

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

Where does this Gatsby vs WordPress 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.

Gatsby vs WordPress — Site Stats Database

Gatsby vs WordPress

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	Gatsby	WordPress
Websites	1,636	267,619
Market share	0.32%	52%
Share of top 10K sites	0.48%	16%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#24	#1

Median DR	52	26

Average DR	47	28

Median keywords	1,313	921

Median referring domains	1,024	350

Median domain age	14 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	180,884	52,075

Combined monthly traffic	295,925,601	13,936,359,016

texas.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,800,442
Referring Domains178,893
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)63,280,689
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGatsby
visitcalifornia.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords213,484
Referring Domains19,290
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)16,620,841
Traffic Trend
Technology
nylottery.ny.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords39,602
Referring Domains6,639
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,628,901
Traffic Trend
Technology
experian.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords484,975
Referring Domains69,809
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,266,282
Traffic Trend
Technology
healthcare.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords142,088
Referring Domains59,177
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,588,291
Traffic Trend
Technology
tastyfx.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords5,784
Referring Domains1,844
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,947,728
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGatsby
raisingcanes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords72,761
Referring Domains8,483
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,902,346
Traffic Trend
Technology
hingehealth.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords170,717
Referring Domains4,921
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,711,009
Traffic Trend
Technology
pickerwheel.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords14,104
Referring Domains3,971
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,274,886
Traffic Trend
Technology
servpro.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords49,536
Referring Domains14,102
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,374,952
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGatsby

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
texas.gov	English	92	1,800,442	178,893	28 yrs	63,280,689		Gatsby

rottentomatoes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords4,123,803
Referring Domains130,919
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)626,896,769
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
nytimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords9,214,622
Referring Domains1,473,314
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)256,700,108
Traffic Trend
Technology
dictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords3,387,790
Referring Domains129,246
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,622,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
healthline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords7,041,614
Referring Domains458,961
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)220,346,497
Traffic Trend
Technology
thesaurus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords1,253,792
Referring Domains42,419
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)206,651,155
Traffic Trend
Technology
akc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords655,094
Referring Domains78,973
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,727,029
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
harvard.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords3,845,102
Referring Domains714,396
Domain Age41 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)104,117,233
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
inchcalculator.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords756,682
Referring Domains16,163
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)89,221,177
Traffic Trend
Technology
biblegateway.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords965,722
Referring Domains185,253
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,990,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
nasa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords977,872
Referring Domains485,459
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,000,277
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress