Is Drip or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 105 use Drip and 1,089 use Substack.

Does Drip or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Drip sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Drip: 35, Substack: 33).

Is Drip or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Drip went from 0.01% to 0.01% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.16% to 0.12%. Drip is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Drip and Substack?

No. A site runs a single email / newsletter platform, so Drip and Substack are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Drip 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.

Drip vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Drip vs Substack

A side-by-side comparison of two email & newsletter platforms, based on the 128,885 Email Marketing sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Drip	Substack
Websites	105	1,089
Market share	0.08%	0.84%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.12%

Rank	#24	#8

Median DR	35	33

Average DR	37	34

Median keywords	1,710	1,250

Median referring domains	687	485

Median domain age	14 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	53,372	95,722

Combined monthly traffic	5,604,088	104,241,674

hawaii-guide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords47,773
Referring Domains6,000
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,534,563
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrip
911groundzero.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)34
Total Keywords3,421
Referring Domains430
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)465,834
Traffic Trend
Technology
exp1.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords28,695
Referring Domains2,151
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)356,885
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrip
backpackinglight.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords70,913
Referring Domains5,521
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)248,028
Traffic Trend
Technology
handwovenmagazine.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)55
Total Keywords6,585
Referring Domains1,051
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)220,312
Traffic Trend
Technology
financialmentor.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords19,097
Referring Domains3,865
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)214,119
Traffic Trend
Technology
whalewisdom.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords14,289
Referring Domains3,457
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)193,334
Traffic Trend
Technology
glacier.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords5,171
Referring Domains816
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)187,562
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrip
tourismoceanshores.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)39
Total Keywords2,612
Referring Domains1,135
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)179,922
Traffic Trend
Technology
shipshewanatradingplace.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)49
Total Keywords2,313
Referring Domains1,307
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)162,127
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
hawaii-guide.com	English	63	47,773	6,000	22 yrs	1,534,563		Drip

alexreichek.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)10
Total Keywords19,565
Referring Domains103
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)21,583,539
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
horoscope.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords99,094
Referring Domains7,518
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,014,480
Traffic Trend
Technology
themodernproper.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords229,805
Referring Domains18,216
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,197,484
Traffic Trend
Technology
sporked.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords282,875
Referring Domains4,981
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,331,097
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
astrology.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords119,893
Referring Domains12,321
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,568,567
Traffic Trend
Technology
labnol.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords24,212
Referring Domains20,681
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,038,273
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
tarheeltimes.com
LanguageHindi
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords32,038
Referring Domains4,565
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,553,219
Traffic Trend
Technology
pensador.com
LanguagePortuguese
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords123,585
Referring Domains13,547
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,501,577
Traffic Trend
Technology
healthynibblesandbits.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords33,219
Referring Domains6,043
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,185,989
Traffic Trend
Technology
drawingsof.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords16,028
Referring Domains678
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,174,609
Traffic Trend
Technology