Is GitHub Pages or Substack more popular?

GitHub Pages is used by more websites in our catalog: 505 use GitHub Pages and 463 use Substack.

Does GitHub Pages or Substack have higher-authority sites?

GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (GitHub Pages: 94, Substack: 32).

Is GitHub Pages or Substack growing faster?

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

Can a site use both GitHub Pages and Substack?

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

Where does this GitHub Pages vs Substack 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 Substack — Site Stats Database

GitHub Pages vs Substack

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	Substack
Websites	505	463
Market share	0.10%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#41	#45

Median DR	94	32

Average DR	94	34

Median keywords	333	957

Median referring domains	167	435

Median domain age	13 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	13 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	17,746	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	8,961,780	119,740,796

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

cbsnews.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords5,029,881
Referring Domains486,461
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)59,376,408
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
substack.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords5,643,513
Referring Domains561,764
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,156,090
Traffic Trend
Technology
thefp.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords39,018
Referring Domains17,521
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)738,323
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
azdesertswarm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords11,126
Referring Domains6,455
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)664,536
Traffic Trend
Technology
thebulwark.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords23,103
Referring Domains13,098
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,028
Traffic Trend
Technology
brokenpalate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)40
Total Keywords3,164
Referring Domains295
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)214,374
Traffic Trend
Technology
r-bloggers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords27,627
Referring Domains8,306
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)212,820
Traffic Trend
Technology
donaldrobertson.name
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)45
Total Keywords1,679
Referring Domains874
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)202,345
Traffic Trend
Technology
noahpinion.blog
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords10,103
Referring Domains5,453
Domain Age3 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,978
Traffic Trend
Technology
jonathanlack.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)11
Total Keywords6,130
Referring Domains697
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,145
Traffic Trend
Technology