astra-child vs publisher

astra-child is used by more websites in our catalog: 649 use astra-child and 136 use publisher.

publisher sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (astra-child: 26, publisher: 34).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, astra-child went from 0.09% to 0.07% of all tracked sites, while publisher went from 0.02% to 0.02%. publisher is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so astra-child and publisher are mutually exclusive.

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.