Is MediaWiki or Substack more popular?

MediaWiki is used by more websites in our catalog: 905 use MediaWiki and 463 use Substack.

Does MediaWiki or Substack have higher-authority sites?

MediaWiki sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (MediaWiki: 52, Substack: 32).

Is MediaWiki or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, MediaWiki went from 0.13% to 0.10% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05%. Substack is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both MediaWiki and Substack?

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

Where does this MediaWiki 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.

MediaWiki vs Substack — Site Stats Database

MediaWiki 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	MediaWiki	Substack
Websites	905	463
Market share	0.18%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.41%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#30	#45

Median DR	52	32

Average DR	54	34

Median keywords	1,828	957

Median referring domains	1,096	435

Median domain age	17 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	16 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	25,263,997	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	22,863,917,419	119,740,796

wikipedia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords61,690,521
Referring Domains6,594,435
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,208,499,330
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMediaWiki
wiktionary.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords3,062,929
Referring Domains213,267
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)104,118,446
Traffic Trend
Technology
wikihow.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords5,580,639
Referring Domains404,808
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)43,976,309
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMediaWiki
wikimedia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords2,379,245
Referring Domains966,084
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,185,929
Traffic Trend
Technology
minecraft.wiki
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords247,787
Referring Domains6,899
Domain Age2 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,965,443
Traffic Trend
Technology
miraheze.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords717,682
Referring Domains27,301
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,013,956
Traffic Trend
Technology
wikivoyage.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords643,751
Referring Domains23,679
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,794,002
Traffic Trend
Technology
runescape.wiki
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords207,329
Referring Domains13,226
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,038,581
Traffic Trend
Technology
mariowiki.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords122,527
Referring Domains13,105
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,306,334
Traffic Trend
Technology
stardewvalleywiki.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords169,976
Referring Domains8,117
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,602,509
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
wikipedia.org	English	97	61,690,521	6,594,435	25 yrs	11,208,499,330		MediaWiki

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