Is Ghost or X-Cart more popular?

Ghost is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 153 use X-Cart.

Does Ghost or X-Cart have higher-authority sites?

Ghost sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, X-Cart: 22).

Is Ghost or X-Cart growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while X-Cart went from 0.02% to 0.02%. X-Cart is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Ghost and X-Cart?

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

Where does this Ghost vs X-Cart 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 X-Cart — Site Stats Database

Ghost vs X-Cart

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	X-Cart
Websites	775	153
Market share	0.15%	0.03%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#76

Median DR	34	22

Average DR	35	23

Median keywords	997	2,238

Median referring domains	393	501

Median domain age	7 yrs	21 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	20 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	28,770

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	4,401,834

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

theclockdepot.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords13,373
Referring Domains1,878
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)351,442
Traffic Trend
TechnologyX-Cart
topsecretrecipes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords37,132
Referring Domains7,529
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)343,073
Traffic Trend
Technology
ishopindian.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)46
Total Keywords10,779
Referring Domains1,132
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)248,502
Traffic Trend
Technology
voguefabricsstore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)42
Total Keywords17,232
Referring Domains1,257
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)203,372
Traffic Trend
Technology
audiocityusa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords34,661
Referring Domains3,672
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)175,980
Traffic Trend
Technology
maloneautoracks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords4,859
Referring Domains1,420
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)168,640
Traffic Trend
Technology
woodworkerexpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)38
Total Keywords32,724
Referring Domains2,235
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)139,174
Traffic Trend
Technology
proceilingtiles.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)14
Total Keywords2,739
Referring Domains556
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)134,221
Traffic Trend
Technology
qualitywindowscreen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)20
Total Keywords5,937
Referring Domains723
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)123,740
Traffic Trend
Technology
hyattgunstore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)29
Total Keywords15,537
Referring Domains1,491
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)114,085
Traffic Trend
Technology