Is GitHub Pages or WordPress.com more popular?

WordPress.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,374 use GitHub Pages and 9,121 use WordPress.com.

Does GitHub Pages or WordPress.com have higher-authority sites?

GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (GitHub Pages: 66, WordPress.com: 14).

Is GitHub Pages or WordPress.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, GitHub Pages went from 0.30% to 0.27% of all tracked sites, while WordPress.com went from 1.1% to 1.0%. WordPress.com is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both GitHub Pages and WordPress.com?

3 websites in our catalog use both GitHub Pages and WordPress.com.

Where does this GitHub Pages 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.

GitHub Pages vs WordPress.com — Site Stats Database

GitHub Pages 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	GitHub Pages	WordPress.com
Websites	2,374	9,121
Market share	0.59%	2.3%
Share of top 10K sites	0.07%	0.19%

Rank	#22	#9

Median DR	66	14

Average DR	57	20

Median keywords	423	878

Median referring domains	587	198

Median domain age	11 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	11 yrs	11 yrs

Average monthly traffic	44,443	34,152

Combined monthly traffic	105,507,045	311,497,135

github.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords2,209,657
Referring Domains2,110,367
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)49,796,856
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
ellaverbs.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)25
Total Keywords40,072
Referring Domains532
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,569,269
Traffic Trend
Technology
cs231n.github.io
LanguageHungarian
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords457
Referring Domains3,623
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,918,719
Traffic Trend
Technology
git-scm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords25,518
Referring Domains85,916
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,768,595
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
zachmanson.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords760
Referring Domains469
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,256,341
Traffic Trend
Technology
googlesnakemods.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords749
Referring Domains531
Domain Age2 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,106,621
Traffic Trend
Technology
ask.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords152,389
Referring Domains54,922
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)926,879
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
brew.sh
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords27,123
Referring Domains35,780
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)826,866
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
clocktab.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)38
Total Keywords3,524
Referring Domains483
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)751,933
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
explorefall.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords7,575
Referring Domains2,182
Domain Age3 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)729,100
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
github.com	English	97	2,209,657	2,110,367	18 yrs	49,796,856		GitHub Pages

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