Is Squarespace or Substack more popular?

Squarespace is used by more websites in our catalog: 19,898 use Squarespace and 463 use Substack.

Does Squarespace or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Substack sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Squarespace: 19, Substack: 32).

Is Squarespace or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Squarespace went from 2.0% to 2.3% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05%. Squarespace is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Squarespace and Substack?

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

Where does this Squarespace 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.

Squarespace vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Squarespace 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	Squarespace	Substack
Websites	19,898	463
Market share	3.9%	0.09%
Share of top 10K sites	0.19%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#5	#45

Median DR	19	32

Average DR	22	34

Median keywords	561	957

Median referring domains	149	435

Median domain age	10 yrs	8 yrs

Average domain age	12 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	20,958	258,619

Combined monthly traffic	417,015,137	119,740,796

squarespace.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords1,147,898
Referring Domains1,352,006
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,906,214
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
hillspet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords206,722
Referring Domains21,021
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,886,872
Traffic Trend
Technology
noahlangphotography.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords28,156
Referring Domains884
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,838,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
pixar.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords25,185
Referring Domains25,736
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,138,006
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
chelseamarket.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords11,374
Referring Domains6,291
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,388,094
Traffic Trend
Technology
bookishwayfarer.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)19
Total Keywords10,518
Referring Domains147
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,351,646
Traffic Trend
Technology
mashupmath.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords51,645
Referring Domains2,099
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,276,104
Traffic Trend
Technology
pressedcafe.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords11,722
Referring Domains667
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,955,466
Traffic Trend
Technology
treelinereview.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords91,103
Referring Domains2,371
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,812,606
Traffic Trend
Technology
1992sharetea.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords12,862
Referring Domains1,572
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,550,991
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
squarespace.com	English	95	1,147,898	1,352,006	23 yrs	8,906,214		Squarespace

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