Cornerstone vs Essential Addons

Essential Addons is used by more websites in our catalog: 3,075 use Cornerstone and 6,022 use Essential Addons.

Cornerstone sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cornerstone: 28, Essential Addons: 15).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cornerstone went from 0.38% to 0.35% of all tracked sites, while Essential Addons went from 0.38% to 0.68%. Essential Addons is gaining ground faster in our index.

16 websites in our catalog use both Cornerstone and Essential Addons.

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.