Is Substack or X-Cart more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 463 use Substack and 153 use X-Cart.

Does Substack or X-Cart have higher-authority sites?

Substack sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Substack: 32, X-Cart: 22).

Is Substack or X-Cart growing faster?

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

Can a site use both Substack and X-Cart?

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

Where does this Substack vs X-Cart 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.

Substack vs X-Cart — Site Stats Database

Substack vs X-Cart

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	Substack	X-Cart
Websites	463	153
Market share	0.09%	0.03%
Share of top 10K sites	0.02%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#45	#76

Median DR	32	22

Average DR	34	23

Median keywords	957	2,238

Median referring domains	435	501

Median domain age	8 yrs	21 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	20 yrs

Average monthly traffic	258,619	28,770

Combined monthly traffic	119,740,796	4,401,834

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 Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)174,145
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
cbsnews.com	English	92	5,029,881	486,461	31 yrs	59,376,408		Substack

theclockdepot.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords13,373
Referring Domains1,878
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)351,442
Traffic Trend
TechnologyX-Cart
topsecretrecipes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords37,132
Referring Domains7,529
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)343,073
Traffic Trend
Technology
ishopindian.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)46
Total Keywords10,779
Referring Domains1,132
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)248,502
Traffic Trend
Technology
voguefabricsstore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)42
Total Keywords17,232
Referring Domains1,257
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)203,372
Traffic Trend
Technology
audiocityusa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords34,661
Referring Domains3,672
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)175,980
Traffic Trend
Technology
maloneautoracks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords4,859
Referring Domains1,420
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)168,640
Traffic Trend
Technology
woodworkerexpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)38
Total Keywords32,724
Referring Domains2,235
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)139,174
Traffic Trend
Technology
proceilingtiles.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)14
Total Keywords2,739
Referring Domains556
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)134,221
Traffic Trend
Technology
qualitywindowscreen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)20
Total Keywords5,937
Referring Domains723
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)123,740
Traffic Trend
Technology
hyattgunstore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)29
Total Keywords15,537
Referring Domains1,491
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)114,085
Traffic Trend
Technology