blocksy vs essentials

blocksy is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,285 use blocksy and 117 use essentials.

essentials sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (blocksy: 14, essentials: 28).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, blocksy went from 0.30% to 0.26% of all tracked sites, while essentials went from 0.02% to 0.01%. essentials is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so blocksy and essentials 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.