Who are the closest competitors to substack.com?

The five closest by shared topics are thenewpittsburghexposition.org, theatlantic.com, barstoolsports.com, economist.com, japanesepod101.com. The full ranked list is in the table above.

How many sites compete with substack.com?

Site Stats Database tracks 101,426 sites that share at least one topic with substack.com. The top 12 by overlap and traffic are shown; the rest are available with a plan.

What do substack.com's competitors have in common?

They most often cover News, Community, Video, Culture, Events.

What platforms and hosting do substack.com's competitors use?

The most common platforms are WordPress, WooCommerce, Next.js. For hosting and CDN, Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS CloudFront are most common.

How is this competitor list built?

We rank every site by how many topics it shares with substack.com, then by estimated monthly traffic. Topics are detected from each site's content and metadata; traffic and authority come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs.

substack.com Competitors & Similar Sites

thenewpittsburghexposition.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)19
Total Keywords1,167
Referring Domains172
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,055
Traffic Trend
theatlantic.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords512,370
Referring Domains394,294
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,281,887
Traffic Trend
barstoolsports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords102,873
Referring Domains22,231
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,211,642
Traffic Trend
economist.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords132,104
Referring Domains272,430
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,151,824
Traffic Trend
japanesepod101.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)60
Total Keywords20,378
Referring Domains3,311
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)762,676
Traffic Trend
irishtimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords203,090
Referring Domains146,617
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)668,276
Traffic Trend
miaminewtimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords103,033
Referring Domains40,095
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)496,372
Traffic Trend
wabe.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords59,350
Referring Domains17,595
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)490,581
Traffic Trend
redstate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords3,934
Referring Domains21,114
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)426,222
Traffic Trend
spanishpod101.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)45
Total Keywords25,043
Referring Domains1,124
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)340,716
Traffic Trend
screenslate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords13,641
Referring Domains2,225
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)249,656
Traffic Trend
englishclass101.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords30,320
Referring Domains1,992
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)193,362
Traffic Trend