rds-child vs twentysixteen

twentysixteen is used by more websites in our catalog: 103 use rds-child and 518 use twentysixteen.

rds-child and twentysixteen sites have a similar median Ahrefs Domain Rating.

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, rds-child went from 0.02% to 0.01% of all tracked sites, while twentysixteen went from 0.06% to 0.06%. rds-child is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so rds-child 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.