Is Ghost or XenForo more popular?

XenForo is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 2,198 use XenForo.

Does Ghost or XenForo have higher-authority sites?

Ghost sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, XenForo: 21).

Is Ghost or XenForo growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while XenForo went from 0.35% to 0.25%. Ghost is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Ghost and XenForo?

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

Where does this Ghost vs XenForo 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 XenForo — Site Stats Database

Ghost vs XenForo

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	XenForo
Websites	775	2,198
Market share	0.15%	0.43%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.05%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#22

Median DR	34	21

Average DR	35	23

Median keywords	997	2,881

Median referring domains	393	687

Median domain age	7 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	37,701

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	82,867,159

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

forum.wordreference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords947,575
Referring Domains18,031
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,231,153
Traffic Trend
TechnologyXenForo
forums.tomshardware.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords267,160
Referring Domains8,261
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,017,071
Traffic Trend
Technology
resetera.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords426,503
Referring Domains17,250
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,544,039
Traffic Trend
Technology
tacomaworld.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords130,378
Referring Domains8,691
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,236,765
Traffic Trend
Technology
forums.macrumors.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords256,677
Referring Domains27,674
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,089,447
Traffic Trend
Technology
sawmillcreek.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords200,878
Referring Domains3,259
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)887,559
Traffic Trend
Technology
pokecommunity.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords80,041
Referring Domains11,387
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)872,171
Traffic Trend
Technology
forums.tomsguide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords92,442
Referring Domains4,379
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)854,337
Traffic Trend
Technology
fanverse.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)31
Total Keywords102,730
Referring Domains3,315
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)784,926
Traffic Trend
TechnologyXenForo
diychatroom.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)42
Total Keywords370,008
Referring Domains21,830
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)756,977
Traffic Trend
Technology