Is Ghost or Hugo more popular?

Hugo is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 1,068 use Hugo.

Does Ghost or Hugo have higher-authority sites?

Hugo sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, Hugo: 39).

Is Ghost or Hugo growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while Hugo went from 0.14% to 0.12%. Ghost is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Ghost and Hugo?

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

Where does this Ghost vs Hugo 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.

Ghost vs Hugo — Site Stats Database

Ghost vs Hugo

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	Ghost	Hugo
Websites	775	1,068
Market share	0.15%	0.21%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.07%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#27

Median DR	34	39

Average DR	35	41

Median keywords	997	887

Median referring domains	393	561

Median domain age	7 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	43,550

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	46,511,181

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 Age9 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

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
allbud.com	English	77	81,210	4,878	22 yrs	1,897,288		Ghost

wumbo.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords39,007
Referring Domains1,229
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,922,257
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
clerk.chat
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords23,105
Referring Domains1,495
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,892,917
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
ropensci.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords2,103
Referring Domains4,218
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,018,439
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
wvu.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords178,823
Referring Domains46,225
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,912,529
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
git-scm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords25,518
Referring Domains85,916
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,768,595
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
brave.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords32,872
Referring Domains59,082
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,164,895
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
pgealerts.alerts.pge.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords7,782
Referring Domains1,225
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,038,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
exceljet.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords50,278
Referring Domains7,394
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)940,958
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
oliveandmango.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords52,730
Referring Domains1,450
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)935,286
Traffic Trend
Technology
freegames.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords6,944
Referring Domains3,003
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)757,716
Traffic Trend
Technology