kadence vs twentysixteen

kadence is used by more websites in our catalog: 11,712 use kadence and 518 use twentysixteen.

kadence sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (kadence: 15, twentysixteen: 14).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, kadence went from 1.7% to 1.3% of all tracked sites, while twentysixteen went from 0.06% to 0.06%. twentysixteen is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so kadence and twentysixteen 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.