🆚 Substack vs. WordPress.com
- 📈 WordPress.com is twice as popular as Substack.
- 🌎 WordPress.com is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- 🌍 Substack is more popular in the Czech Republic, Russia, and Nigeria.
Substack
WordPress.comType
About
Substack is an online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.
It provides email newsletter distribution, a web-based archive, built-in payment processing, and audience analytics, and includes social features such as recommendations, comments, and a Notes feed for short-form posts and discovery.
WordPress.com is a managed 
WordPress platform that handles hosting, performance, security, and maintenance so site owners can focus on content.
It provides 1,000+ customizable templates, unmetered bandwidth and traffic, the site accelerator CDN for images and static files, automatic backups with one-click restore, malware scanning, and DDoS protection.
Headquarters
Pricing
(6 GB storage) $48/year
(13 GB storage) $96/year
(50+ GB storage) $300+/year
(50+ GB storage) $540+/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mexico in the Blogging Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Blogger🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.