Is Ghost or Squarespace more popular?

Squarespace is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 19,898 use Squarespace.

Does Ghost or Squarespace have higher-authority sites?

Ghost sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, Squarespace: 19).

Is Ghost or Squarespace growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while Squarespace went from 2.0% to 2.3%. Squarespace is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Ghost and Squarespace?

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

Where does this Ghost vs Squarespace 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 Squarespace — Site Stats Database

Ghost vs Squarespace

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	Squarespace
Websites	775	19,898
Market share	0.15%	3.9%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.19%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#5

Median DR	34	19

Average DR	35	22

Median keywords	997	561

Median referring domains	393	149

Median domain age	7 yrs	10 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	20,958

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	417,015,137

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

squarespace.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords1,147,898
Referring Domains1,352,006
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,906,214
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
hillspet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords206,722
Referring Domains21,021
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,886,872
Traffic Trend
Technology
noahlangphotography.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords28,156
Referring Domains884
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,838,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
pixar.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords25,185
Referring Domains25,736
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,138,006
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
chelseamarket.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords11,374
Referring Domains6,291
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,388,094
Traffic Trend
Technology
bookishwayfarer.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)19
Total Keywords10,518
Referring Domains147
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,351,646
Traffic Trend
Technology
mashupmath.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords51,645
Referring Domains2,099
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,276,104
Traffic Trend
Technology
pressedcafe.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords11,722
Referring Domains667
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,955,466
Traffic Trend
Technology
treelinereview.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords91,103
Referring Domains2,371
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,812,606
Traffic Trend
Technology
1992sharetea.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords12,862
Referring Domains1,572
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,550,991
Traffic Trend
Technology