Is Cloudways or WordPress.com more popular?

WordPress.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,110 use Cloudways and 9,121 use WordPress.com.

Does Cloudways or WordPress.com have higher-authority sites?

Cloudways sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudways: 25, WordPress.com: 14).

Is Cloudways or WordPress.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudways went from 0.15% to 0.13% of all tracked sites, while WordPress.com went from 1.1% to 1.0%. Cloudways is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Cloudways and WordPress.com?

3 websites in our catalog use both Cloudways and WordPress.com.

Where does this Cloudways 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.

Cloudways vs WordPress.com — Site Stats Database

Cloudways vs WordPress.com

A side-by-side comparison of two hosting & cdn providers, based on the 404,518 Hosting / CDN sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Cloudways	WordPress.com
Websites	1,110	9,121
Market share	0.27%	2.3%
Share of top 10K sites	0.07%	0.19%

Rank	#24	#9

Median DR	25	14

Average DR	27	20

Median keywords	939	878

Median referring domains	315	198

Median domain age	10 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	12 yrs	11 yrs

Average monthly traffic	45,518	34,152

Combined monthly traffic	50,524,433	311,497,135

thecozycook.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords214,494
Referring Domains17,944
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,670,727
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways
columbia.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords134,403
Referring Domains12,357
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,463,773
Traffic Trend
Technology
marcos.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords62,185
Referring Domains3,843
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,901,763
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways
impactful.ninja
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords104,469
Referring Domains2,736
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,458,041
Traffic Trend
Technology
sorel.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords25,765
Referring Domains3,516
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,059,411
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways
riderguide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords9,450
Referring Domains885
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,197,045
Traffic Trend
Technology
commandlinux.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords9,443
Referring Domains907
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)964,891
Traffic Trend
Technology
gokartsusa.biz
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords17,062
Referring Domains466
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)743,595
Traffic Trend
Technology
museumofthebible.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords17,985
Referring Domains3,990
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)677,120
Traffic Trend
Technology
pcguide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords171,955
Referring Domains13,159
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)673,624
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
thecozycook.com	English	65	214,494	17,944	12 yrs	9,670,727		Cloudways

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
TechnologyWordPress.com
rollingstone.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,594,859
Referring Domains282,640
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,854,417
Traffic Trend
Technology
billboard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,234,871
Referring Domains203,759
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,997,204
Traffic Trend
Technology
tumblr.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords2,212,416
Referring Domains2,723,869
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,894,907
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress.com
sheknows.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords677,012
Referring Domains110,881
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,598,435
Traffic Trend
Technology
pagesix.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords481,504
Referring Domains111,038
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,804,201
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress.com
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
calculators.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords73,943
Referring Domains4,406
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,759,049
Traffic Trend
Technology
calmatters.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords101,926
Referring Domains29,106
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,585,637
Traffic Trend
Technology