bricks vs Newspaper-child

bricks is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,484 use bricks and 197 use Newspaper-child.

Newspaper-child sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (bricks: 27, Newspaper-child: 47).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, bricks went from 0.19% to 0.17% of all tracked sites, while Newspaper-child went from 0.03% to 0.02%. Newspaper-child is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so bricks and Newspaper-child 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.