pub vs u-design

pub is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,530 use pub and 171 use u-design.

u-design sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (pub: 8, u-design: 14).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, pub went from 0.26% to 0.29% of all tracked sites, while u-design went from 0.02% to 0.02%. pub is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so pub and u-design 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.