Is GitHub Pages or WordPress more popular?

WordPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 505 use GitHub Pages and 267,619 use WordPress.

Does GitHub Pages or WordPress have higher-authority sites?

GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (GitHub Pages: 94, WordPress: 26).

Is GitHub Pages or WordPress growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, GitHub Pages went from 0.05% to 0.06% of all tracked sites, while WordPress went from 35% to 30%. GitHub Pages is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both GitHub Pages and WordPress?

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

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

GitHub Pages vs WordPress

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	WordPress
Websites	505	267,619
Market share	0.10%	52%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	16%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#41	#1

Median DR	94	26

Average DR	94	28

Median keywords	333	921

Median referring domains	167	350

Median domain age	13 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	13 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	17,746	52,075

Combined monthly traffic	8,961,780	13,936,359,016

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

rottentomatoes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords4,123,803
Referring Domains130,919
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)626,896,769
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
nytimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords9,214,622
Referring Domains1,473,314
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)256,700,108
Traffic Trend
Technology
dictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords3,387,790
Referring Domains129,246
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,622,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
healthline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords7,041,614
Referring Domains458,961
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)220,346,497
Traffic Trend
Technology
thesaurus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords1,253,792
Referring Domains42,419
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)206,651,155
Traffic Trend
Technology
akc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords655,094
Referring Domains78,973
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,727,029
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
harvard.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords3,845,102
Referring Domains714,396
Domain Age41 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)104,117,233
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
inchcalculator.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords756,682
Referring Domains16,163
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)89,221,177
Traffic Trend
Technology
biblegateway.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords965,722
Referring Domains185,253
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,990,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
nasa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords977,872
Referring Domains485,459
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,000,277
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress