Is Plone or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 152 use Plone and 463 use Substack.

Does Plone or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Plone sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Plone: 69, Substack: 32).

Is Plone or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Plone went from 0.02% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05%. Plone is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Plone and Substack?

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

Where does this Plone 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.

Plone vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Plone 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	Plone	Substack
Websites	152	463
Market share	0.03%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.02%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#77	#45

Median DR	69	32

Average DR	62	34

Median keywords	673	957

Median referring domains	2,877	435

Median domain age	24 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	23 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	67,906	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	10,321,683	119,740,796

wta.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords95,619
Referring Domains11,414
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,361,446
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPlone
cabq.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords154,412
Referring Domains15,278
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,669,510
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPlone
codot.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords42,949
Referring Domains9,794
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)930,944
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPlone
mec.gov.br
LanguagePortuguese
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords2,648
Referring Domains55,715
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)488,700
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPlone
mountaineers.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords35,979
Referring Domains6,060
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)388,371
Traffic Trend
Technology
dcurbanmom.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords203,787
Referring Domains2,966
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)378,361
Traffic Trend
Technology
cnm.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords17,814
Referring Domains4,131
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)230,474
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPlone
cmc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords13,015
Referring Domains1,745
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)181,006
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPlone
chelwest.nhs.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords20,947
Referring Domains4,011
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)147,140
Traffic Trend
Technology
unibo.it
LanguageItalian
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords21,935
Referring Domains48,069
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)97,420
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPlone

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
wta.org	English	77	95,619	11,414	31 yrs	3,361,446		Plone

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