Is GitHub Pages or Jekyll more popular?

GitHub Pages is used by more websites in our catalog: 505 use GitHub Pages and 299 use Jekyll.

Does GitHub Pages or Jekyll have higher-authority sites?

GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (GitHub Pages: 94, Jekyll: 42).

Is GitHub Pages or Jekyll growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, GitHub Pages went from 0.05% to 0.06% of all tracked sites, while Jekyll went from 0.04% to 0.03%. GitHub Pages is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both GitHub Pages and Jekyll?

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so GitHub Pages and Jekyll are mutually exclusive.

Where does this GitHub Pages vs Jekyll 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.

GitHub Pages vs Jekyll — Site Stats Database

GitHub Pages vs Jekyll

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	GitHub Pages	Jekyll
Websites	505	299
Market share	0.10%	0.06%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#41	#63

Median DR	94	42

Average DR	94	43

Median keywords	333	558

Median referring domains	167	561

Median domain age	13 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	13 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	17,746	42,041

Combined monthly traffic	8,961,780	12,570,204

cs231n.github.io
LanguageHungarian
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords457
Referring Domains3,623
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,918,719
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
doodlecricket.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords2,549
Referring Domains871
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)591,885
Traffic Trend
Technology
classroomgame.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords1,226
Referring Domains0
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)500,460
Traffic Trend
Technology
r-roms.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords8,869
Referring Domains692
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)370,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
geometry-dash-unbanned.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords343
Referring Domains93
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)268,188
Traffic Trend
Technology
genizymath.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords1,426
Referring Domains4
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,761
Traffic Trend
Technology
thepizzaedition-games.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords430
Referring Domains2
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)165,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
emn178.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords4,165
Referring Domains2,387
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)140,295
Traffic Trend
Technology
powerlanguage-wordle.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords449
Referring Domains30
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
geometry-dashworld.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords270
Referring Domains129
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)123,973
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
cs231n.github.io	Hungarian	94	457	3,623	13 yrs	1,918,719		GitHub Pages

acecashexpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords35,145
Referring Domains2,933
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,565,716
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJekyll
ada.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords73,274
Referring Domains63,508
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,506,164
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJekyll
brew.sh
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords27,123
Referring Domains35,780
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)826,866
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJekyll
hiresuccess.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)44
Total Keywords5,098
Referring Domains785
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)449,091
Traffic Trend
Technology
posemy.art
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)37
Total Keywords9,773
Referring Domains1,148
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)379,662
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJekyll
onlinetranslationpro.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)10
Total Keywords9,467
Referring Domains439
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)317,328
Traffic Trend
Technology
endoflife.date
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords20,363
Referring Domains4,276
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)208,834
Traffic Trend
Technology
discourse.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords8,873
Referring Domains20,928
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)198,257
Traffic Trend
Technology
fabricmc.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords6,135
Referring Domains3,849
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)180,103
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJekyll
copychar.cc
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords2,995
Referring Domains875
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)171,429
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJekyll