Is Newspack (Automattic) or WordPress.com more popular?

WordPress.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,132 use Newspack (Automattic) and 9,121 use WordPress.com.

Does Newspack (Automattic) or WordPress.com have higher-authority sites?

Newspack (Automattic) sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Newspack (Automattic): 24, WordPress.com: 14).

Is Newspack (Automattic) or WordPress.com growing faster?

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

How many sites use both Newspack (Automattic) and WordPress.com?

889 websites in our catalog use both Newspack (Automattic) and WordPress.com.

Where does this Newspack (Automattic) 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.

Newspack (Automattic) vs WordPress.com — Site Stats Database

Newspack (Automattic) 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	Newspack (Automattic)	WordPress.com
Websites	1,132	9,121
Market share	0.28%	2.3%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.19%

Share of top 100K sites	0.16%	0.58%

Rank	#23	#9

Median DR	24	14

Average DR	30	20

Median keywords	1,377	878

Median referring domains	315	198

Median domain age	7 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	11 yrs

Average monthly traffic	38,798	34,152

Combined monthly traffic	43,919,787	311,497,135

calmatters.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords101,926
Referring Domains29,106
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,585,637
Traffic Trend
TechnologyNewspack (Automattic)
historynet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords157,287
Referring Domains20,549
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,315,013
Traffic Trend
Technology
news.northeastern.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords48,199
Referring Domains18,431
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,168,876
Traffic Trend
Technology
theruntesters.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)28
Total Keywords12,226
Referring Domains582
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,110,317
Traffic Trend
Technology
pressherald.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords84,000
Referring Domains50,854
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)710,688
Traffic Trend
Technology
polyphagicabby.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)6
Total Keywords4,478
Referring Domains337
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)695,102
Traffic Trend
Technology
washingtoncitypaper.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords38,301
Referring Domains29,924
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)694,829
Traffic Trend
Technology
insightcrime.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords19,838
Referring Domains16,321
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)631,986
Traffic Trend
Technology
michigandaily.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords66,331
Referring Domains15,477
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)603,973
Traffic Trend
Technology
vickypham.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords25,681
Referring Domains1,235
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)575,289
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
calmatters.org	English	81	101,926	29,106	11 yrs	1,585,637		Newspack (Automattic)

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