Is Sanity or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 140 use Sanity and 463 use Substack.

Does Sanity or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Sanity sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Sanity: 50, Substack: 32).

Is Sanity or Substack growing faster?

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

Can a site use both Sanity and Substack?

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

Where does this Sanity 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.

Sanity vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Sanity 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	Sanity	Substack
Websites	140	463
Market share	0.03%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#79	#45

Median DR	50	32

Average DR	48	34

Median keywords	2,022	957

Median referring domains	840	435

Median domain age	15 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	16 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	144,680	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	20,255,266	119,740,796

popeyes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords64,704
Referring Domains7,467
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,061,956
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity
churchs.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords21,323
Referring Domains2,516
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,725,663
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity
coda.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords19,424
Referring Domains16,588
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,256,407
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity
timhortons.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords11,351
Referring Domains13,114
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,148,141
Traffic Trend
Technology
first15.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords11,136
Referring Domains587
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)370,341
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity
popeyeschicken.ca
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords5,197
Referring Domains847
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)362,999
Traffic Trend
Technology
iloveoph.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)25
Total Keywords4,130
Referring Domains148
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)295,628
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity
anduril.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords16,018
Referring Domains6,887
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)293,324
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity
dsrny.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords1,321
Referring Domains3,563
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)238,884
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity
slite.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords9,387
Referring Domains3,391
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)211,236
Traffic Trend
TechnologySanity

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
popeyes.com	English	73	64,704	7,467	28 yrs	6,061,956		Sanity

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