Is Ghost or SEOmatic more popular?

SEOmatic is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 1,029 use SEOmatic.

Does Ghost or SEOmatic have higher-authority sites?

SEOmatic sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, SEOmatic: 51).

Is Ghost or SEOmatic growing faster?

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

Can a site use both Ghost and SEOmatic?

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

Where does this Ghost vs SEOmatic 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 SEOmatic — Site Stats Database

Ghost vs SEOmatic

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	SEOmatic
Websites	775	1,029
Market share	0.15%	0.20%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.17%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#28

Median DR	34	51

Average DR	35	49

Median keywords	997	1,481

Median referring domains	393	943

Median domain age	7 yrs	21 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	20 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	101,445

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	104,386,975

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

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

umd.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords539,975
Referring Domains142,986
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,576,648
Traffic Trend
TechnologySEOmatic
themodernproper.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords229,805
Referring Domains18,216
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,197,484
Traffic Trend
Technology
playbill.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords253,489
Referring Domains44,918
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,713,906
Traffic Trend
Technology
centralparknyc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords24,497
Referring Domains14,724
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,519,398
Traffic Trend
Technology
alaska.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords85,560
Referring Domains9,741
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,553,886
Traffic Trend
TechnologySEOmatic
chwinery.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords47,167
Referring Domains4,212
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,031,448
Traffic Trend
Technology
virginiabeach.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords48,340
Referring Domains2,699
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,016,565
Traffic Trend
Technology
smoothieking.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords38,002
Referring Domains4,894
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,984,919
Traffic Trend
Technology
bobsredmill.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords111,342
Referring Domains16,889
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,907,069
Traffic Trend
Technology
deathpenaltyinfo.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords25,897
Referring Domains13,987
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,730,330
Traffic Trend
Technology