Is Flodesk or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 719 use Flodesk and 1,089 use Substack.

Does Flodesk or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Substack sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Flodesk: 30, Substack: 33).

Is Flodesk or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Flodesk went from 0.11% to 0.08% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.16% to 0.12%. Flodesk is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Flodesk and Substack?

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

Where does this Flodesk 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.

Flodesk vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Flodesk 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	Flodesk	Substack
Websites	719	1,089
Market share	0.56%	0.84%
Share of top 10K sites	0.09%	0.12%

Rank	#13	#8

Median DR	30	33

Average DR	29	34

Median keywords	2,206	1,250

Median referring domains	447	485

Median domain age	9 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	83,110	95,722

Combined monthly traffic	59,756,188	104,241,674

thechunkychef.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords122,050
Referring Domains20,640
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,910,753
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFlodesk
livelikeitstheweekend.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)42
Total Keywords31,863
Referring Domains1,479
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,528,874
Traffic Trend
Technology
yourhomebasedmom.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords68,470
Referring Domains14,348
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,388,895
Traffic Trend
Technology
emeraldpalate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords38,624
Referring Domains1,861
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,968,431
Traffic Trend
Technology
theeverygirl.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords209,907
Referring Domains30,656
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,682,628
Traffic Trend
Technology
asimplepalate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords24,949
Referring Domains2,311
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,378,815
Traffic Trend
Technology
alicesparklykat.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)40
Total Keywords17,960
Referring Domains808
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,305,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
askaboutmyfaith.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)30
Total Keywords28,494
Referring Domains388
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,048,448
Traffic Trend
Technology
wellseasonedstudio.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords57,715
Referring Domains3,957
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)979,254
Traffic Trend
Technology
lemonsforlulu.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords46,194
Referring Domains7,800
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)949,766
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
thechunkychef.com	English	70	122,050	20,640	11 yrs	6,910,753		Flodesk

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