Jekyll vs Substack

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 299 use Jekyll and 463 use Substack.

Jekyll sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Jekyll: 42, Substack: 32).

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

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

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.