Is Substack or Zen Cart more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 463 use Substack and 112 use Zen Cart.

Does Substack or Zen Cart have higher-authority sites?

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

Is Substack or Zen Cart growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Substack went from 0.06% to 0.05% of all tracked sites, while Zen Cart went from 0.01% to 0.01%. Zen Cart is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Substack and Zen Cart?

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

Where does this Substack vs Zen 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 Zen Cart — Site Stats Database

Substack vs Zen 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	Zen Cart
Websites	463	112
Market share	0.09%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	0.02%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#45	#87

Median DR	32	19

Average DR	34	23

Median keywords	957	1,222

Median referring domains	435	301

Median domain age	8 yrs	18 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	258,619	11,444

Combined monthly traffic	119,740,796	1,281,727

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

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

regencychess.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)29
Total Keywords3,374
Referring Domains305
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)208,268
Traffic Trend
TechnologyZen Cart
theoringstore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)30
Total Keywords5,129
Referring Domains753
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)163,358
Traffic Trend
Technology
bachmanntrains.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords10,412
Referring Domains1,890
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)139,258
Traffic Trend
Technology
japan.webike.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords21,043
Referring Domains4,201
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)70,421
Traffic Trend
Technology
thelittledollhousecompany.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)28
Total Keywords9,263
Referring Domains824
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)53,757
Traffic Trend
Technology
codecanyon.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords15,382
Referring Domains48,119
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,850
Traffic Trend
Technology
truck-runningboards.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)13
Total Keywords2,983
Referring Domains2,075
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,830
Traffic Trend
Technology
kualo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords2,108
Referring Domains2,477
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,499
Traffic Trend
TechnologyZen Cart
fordogtrainers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords6,629
Referring Domains1,107
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)23,333
Traffic Trend
Technology
randl.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords4,248
Referring Domains1,159
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)17,678
Traffic Trend
TechnologyZen Cart