Is ac.uk or wordpress.com more popular?

wordpress.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 164 use ac.uk and 8,074 use wordpress.com.

Does ac.uk or wordpress.com have higher-authority sites?

ac.uk sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (ac.uk: 74, wordpress.com: 12).

Is ac.uk or wordpress.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, ac.uk went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while wordpress.com went from 0.93% to 0.92%. ac.uk is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both ac.uk and wordpress.com?

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so ac.uk and wordpress.com are mutually exclusive.

Where does this ac.uk vs wordpress.com 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.

ac.uk vs wordpress.com — Site Stats Database

ac.uk vs wordpress.com

A side-by-side comparison of two dns providers, based on the 840,922 DNS Provider sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	ac.uk	wordpress.com
Websites	164	8,074
Market share	0.02%	0.96%
Share of top 10K sites	0.08%	0.12%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#205	#12

Median DR	74	12

Average DR	71	17

Median keywords	4,454	867

Median referring domains	6,967	167

Median domain age	30 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	27 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	224,079	31,506

Combined monthly traffic	36,748,893	254,381,451

columbia.edu
Language
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords761,153
Referring Domains274,583
Domain Age41 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,983,734
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
ox.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords293,969
Referring Domains241,652
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,502,605
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
st-andrews.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords52,618
Referring Domains42,437
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,825,038
Traffic Trend
Technology
mathcentre.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords35,704
Referring Domains2,040
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,395,992
Traffic Trend
Technology
open.edu
Language
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords147,757
Referring Domains32,218
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,383,417
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
ed.ac.uk
Language
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords120,839
Referring Domains104,521
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,217,056
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
olemiss.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords53,128
Referring Domains29,130
Domain Age37 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,114,931
Traffic Trend
Technology
ucl.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords137,041
Referring Domains130,914
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,094,211
Traffic Trend
Technologyac.uk
yourgenome.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords32,259
Referring Domains8,119
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)928,859
Traffic Trend
Technology
sussex.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords35,246
Referring Domains33,657
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)597,165
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
columbia.edu		91	761,153	274,583	41 yrs	12,983,734		ac.uk

recipetineats.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords844,549
Referring Domains59,630
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)55,020,972
Traffic Trend
Technologywordpress.com
wordpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords11,936,997
Referring Domains4,665,334
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,379,435
Traffic Trend
Technology
thewanderbug.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)27
Total Keywords20,613
Referring Domains475
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,006,552
Traffic Trend
Technology
culturalfoodies.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)25
Total Keywords6,148
Referring Domains440
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,998,834
Traffic Trend
Technology
thoughtcatalog.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords203,719
Referring Domains53,186
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,942,702
Traffic Trend
Technology
hollywoodlife.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords381,714
Referring Domains78,515
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,934,749
Traffic Trend
Technology
witchesofthecraft.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords28,737
Referring Domains1,221
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,289,776
Traffic Trend
Technology
wanderingindisney.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)19
Total Keywords18,631
Referring Domains702
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,255,306
Traffic Trend
Technology
smittenkitchen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords83,271
Referring Domains36,100
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,251,221
Traffic Trend
Technology
consequence.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords264,522
Referring Domains52,877
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,141,511
Traffic Trend
Technology