Is Hugo or SEOmatic more popular?

Hugo is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,068 use Hugo and 1,029 use SEOmatic.

Does Hugo or SEOmatic have higher-authority sites?

SEOmatic sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Hugo: 39, SEOmatic: 51).

Is Hugo or SEOmatic growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Hugo went from 0.14% to 0.12% of all tracked sites, while SEOmatic went from 0.14% to 0.12%. Hugo is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Hugo and SEOmatic?

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

Where does this Hugo vs SEOmatic 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.

Hugo vs SEOmatic — Site Stats Database

Hugo vs SEOmatic

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	Hugo	SEOmatic
Websites	1,068	1,029
Market share	0.21%	0.20%
Share of top 10K sites	0.07%	0.17%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#27	#28

Median DR	39	51

Average DR	41	49

Median keywords	887	1,481

Median referring domains	561	943

Median domain age	11 yrs	21 yrs

Average domain age	12 yrs	20 yrs

Average monthly traffic	43,550	101,445

Combined monthly traffic	46,511,181	104,386,975

wumbo.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords39,007
Referring Domains1,229
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,922,257
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
clerk.chat
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords23,105
Referring Domains1,495
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,892,917
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
ropensci.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords2,103
Referring Domains4,218
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,018,439
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
wvu.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords178,823
Referring Domains46,225
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,912,529
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
git-scm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords25,518
Referring Domains85,916
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,768,595
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
brave.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords32,872
Referring Domains59,082
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,164,895
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
pgealerts.alerts.pge.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords7,782
Referring Domains1,225
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,038,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
exceljet.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords50,278
Referring Domains7,394
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)940,958
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
oliveandmango.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords52,730
Referring Domains1,450
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)935,286
Traffic Trend
Technology
freegames.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords6,944
Referring Domains3,003
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)757,716
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
wumbo.net	English	63	39,007	1,229	9 yrs	7,922,257		Hugo

umd.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords539,975
Referring Domains142,986
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,576,648
Traffic Trend
TechnologySEOmatic
themodernproper.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords229,805
Referring Domains18,216
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,197,484
Traffic Trend
Technology
playbill.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords253,489
Referring Domains44,918
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,713,906
Traffic Trend
Technology
centralparknyc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords24,497
Referring Domains14,724
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,519,398
Traffic Trend
Technology
alaska.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords85,560
Referring Domains9,741
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,553,886
Traffic Trend
TechnologySEOmatic
chwinery.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords47,167
Referring Domains4,212
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,031,448
Traffic Trend
Technology
virginiabeach.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords48,340
Referring Domains2,699
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,016,565
Traffic Trend
Technology
smoothieking.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords38,002
Referring Domains4,894
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,984,919
Traffic Trend
Technology
bobsredmill.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords111,342
Referring Domains16,889
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,907,069
Traffic Trend
Technology
deathpenaltyinfo.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords25,897
Referring Domains13,987
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,730,330
Traffic Trend
Technology