AdSense vs Freestar

AdSense is used by more websites in our catalog: 265,898 use AdSense and 1,803 use Freestar.

Freestar sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AdSense: 32, Freestar: 58).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AdSense went from 36% to 30% of all tracked sites, while Freestar went from 0.28% to 0.20%. Freestar is gaining ground faster in our index.

838 websites in our catalog use both AdSense 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.