bridge vs publisher

bridge is used by more websites in our catalog: 932 use bridge and 136 use publisher.

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

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, bridge went from 0.10% to 0.11% of all tracked sites, while publisher went from 0.02% to 0.02%. bridge is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so bridge 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.