Newspack on new websites
WordPress based publishing platform for small and mid sized news organisations.
Found via: StackScope Wider Web 55
Newspack appeared on 17 new sites in the last 30 days.
These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
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17 new sites with Newspack first seen in the last 30 days.
Stackdar watches every launch we detect and sends you the ones using Newspack, by email, Slack or webhook. On every plan, from £15 a month.
See how alerts workShare of new sites using Newspack
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026. Chart starts at first detection.
The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Newspack itself changing.
Coverage details
Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.
Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
What kind of sites use Newspack
18 sites with a known type, all time
Domain endings using Newspack
55 sites, all time
- .com 54.6%
- .org 9.1%
- .blog 5.5%
- .co 3.6%
- .fr 3.6%
- .br 1.8%
Country
Country likely for 10 of 55 sites (18.2%), all time.
How we know
Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
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Brazil
20.0%
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France
20.0%
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Canada
10.0%
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Germany
10.0%
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United Kingdom
10.0%
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Ireland
10.0%
Publishing leaders
| Tool | % of sitesall time | % of categoryall time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
Substack
|
0.1% | 49.5% |
| #2 | – |
Open Journal Systems
|
<0.1% | 11.7% |
| #3 | ▲2 | Facebook Instant Articles | <0.1% | 4.6% |
| #4 | ▼1 | FeedBurner | <0.1% | 4.2% |
| #5 | ▼2 | Heyzine | <0.1% | 2.6% |
| … | ||||
| #15 | ▼3 |
Newspack
Current page
|
<0.1% | 0.8% |
Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Publishing tool.Among September launches it ranked #17 in Publishing, down from #14 in August. All 143 in Publishing →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
| Bilmur (WordPress.com RUM) | 40 | 136x |
WordPress.com
|
40 | 134x |
WP Cloud
|
41 | 128x |
Jetpack
|
48 | 109x |
Gravatar
|
42 | 104x |
Tools that turn up far more often on Newspack sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
55 sites across the wider web use Newspack
None of them is a product launch we list individually, so there is nothing to show here. They still count towards the figures above. How StackScope Discovery works
The StackScope API serves all 55 sites using Newspack, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.