sydney vs twentysixteen

twentysixteen is used by more websites in our catalog: 287 use sydney and 518 use twentysixteen.

twentysixteen sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (sydney: 13, twentysixteen: 14).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, sydney went from 0.03% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while twentysixteen went from 0.06% to 0.06%. sydney is gaining ground faster in our index.

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