bricks vs essentials

bricks is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,484 use bricks and 117 use essentials.

essentials sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (bricks: 27, essentials: 28).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, bricks went from 0.19% to 0.17% 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 bricks 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.