Canvas vs Populi

Populi is used by more websites in our catalog: 691 use Canvas and 713 use Populi.

Canvas sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Canvas: 59, Populi: 52).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Canvas went from 0.10% to 0.08% of all tracked sites, while Populi went from 0.10% to 0.08%. Populi is gaining ground faster in our index.

6 websites in our catalog use both Canvas and Populi.

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.