custom vs Newspaper

Newspaper is used by more websites in our catalog: 105 use custom and 3,296 use Newspaper.

custom sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (custom: 41, Newspaper: 32).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, custom went from 0.01% to 0.01% of all tracked sites, while Newspaper went from 0.48% to 0.37%. custom is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so custom and Newspaper 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.