A-ADS vs Freestar

Freestar is used by more websites in our catalog: 117 use A-ADS and 1,803 use Freestar.

Freestar sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (A-ADS: 29, Freestar: 58).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, A-ADS went from 0.02% to 0.01% of all tracked sites, while Freestar went from 0.28% to 0.20%. A-ADS is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both A-ADS and Freestar.

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.