authentic vs genesis

genesis is used by more websites in our catalog: 172 use authentic and 1,671 use genesis.

authentic sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (authentic: 29, genesis: 24).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, authentic went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while genesis went from 0.23% to 0.19%. authentic is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so authentic and genesis 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.