Is Ghost or vBulletin more popular?

Ghost is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 310 use vBulletin.

Does Ghost or vBulletin have higher-authority sites?

Ghost sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, vBulletin: 26).

Is Ghost or vBulletin growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while vBulletin went from 0.05% to 0.04%. vBulletin is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Ghost and vBulletin?

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

Where does this Ghost vs vBulletin 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 vBulletin — Site Stats Database

Ghost vs vBulletin

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	vBulletin
Websites	775	310
Market share	0.15%	0.06%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#62

Median DR	34	26

Average DR	35	27

Median keywords	997	1,632

Median referring domains	393	817

Median domain age	7 yrs	22 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	21 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	17,597

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	5,455,181

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
Technology

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

f150forum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)47
Total Keywords129,382
Referring Domains8,314
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)706,595
Traffic Trend
TechnologyvBulletin
bikeforums.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords109,798
Referring Domains5,118
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)304,397
Traffic Trend
Technology
quiltingboard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)34
Total Keywords70,300
Referring Domains3,592
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)214,472
Traffic Trend
Technology
rcgroups.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords51,454
Referring Domains11,918
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)210,684
Traffic Trend
Technology
ownedcore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords16,225
Referring Domains9,357
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)197,301
Traffic Trend
Technology
pitmaster.amazingribs.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords56,845
Referring Domains1,533
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)194,521
Traffic Trend
Technology
mmo-champion.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords44,269
Referring Domains9,844
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)190,318
Traffic Trend
Technology
modthesims.info
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords31,986
Referring Domains10,529
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,001
Traffic Trend
Technology
excelforum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)45
Total Keywords47,016
Referring Domains2,662
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)168,912
Traffic Trend
Technology
project1999.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords7,323
Referring Domains8,404
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)129,496
Traffic Trend
Technology