Is Freestar or Journey by Mediavine more popular?

Journey by Mediavine is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,803 use Freestar and 5,363 use Journey by Mediavine.

Does Freestar or Journey by Mediavine have higher-authority sites?

Freestar sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Freestar: 58, Journey by Mediavine: 9).

Is Freestar or Journey by Mediavine growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Freestar went from 0.28% to 0.20% of all tracked sites, while Journey by Mediavine went from 0.90% to 0.61%. Freestar is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Freestar and Journey by Mediavine?

0 websites in our catalog use both Freestar and Journey by Mediavine.

Where does this Freestar vs Journey by Mediavine data come from?

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.

Freestar vs Journey by Mediavine — Site Stats Database

Freestar vs Journey by Mediavine

A side-by-side comparison of two ad networks & monetization methods, based on the 351,094 Ad Network sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Freestar	Journey by Mediavine
Websites	1,803	5,363
Market share	0.51%	1.5%
Share of top 10K sites	2.0%	0.03%

Rank	#17	#12

Median DR	58	9

Average DR	55	14

Median keywords	8,664	1,273

Median referring domains	3,332	118

Median domain age	22 yrs	4 yrs

Average domain age	20 yrs	6 yrs

Average monthly traffic	1,037,699	14,067

Combined monthly traffic	1,870,971,522	75,439,512

worldometers.info
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords472,275
Referring Domains82,483
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)113,278,446
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFreestar
time.is
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords161,712
Referring Domains16,541
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)93,920,660
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFreestar
biblegateway.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords965,722
Referring Domains185,253
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,990,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
pro-football-reference.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords454,924
Referring Domains18,914
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)71,315,152
Traffic Trend
Technology
basketball-reference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords346,107
Referring Domains21,573
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)61,312,972
Traffic Trend
Technology
baseball-reference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords421,618
Referring Domains30,500
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)57,651,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
footballdb.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)55
Total Keywords264,264
Referring Domains3,634
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)54,434,822
Traffic Trend
Technology
word.tips
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords355,389
Referring Domains7,343
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)49,080,142
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFreestar
azlyrics.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords1,180,304
Referring Domains35,494
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)48,971,518
Traffic Trend
Technology
famousbirthdays.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords1,568,226
Referring Domains51,145
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)48,725,091
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
worldometers.info	English	86	472,275	82,483	21 yrs	113,278,446		Freestar

thechunkychef.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords122,050
Referring Domains20,640
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,910,753
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJourney by Mediavine
savorynothings.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)60
Total Keywords106,328
Referring Domains9,510
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,794,085
Traffic Trend
Technology
accentletters.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)10
Total Keywords3,717
Referring Domains236
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)973,253
Traffic Trend
Technology
restareasnearme.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)0
Total Keywords3,728
Referring Domains1
Domain Age0 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)804,388
Traffic Trend
Technology
mytrailsaremany.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)9
Total Keywords4,447
Referring Domains102
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)765,957
Traffic Trend
Technology
tornadoughalli.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords45,439
Referring Domains8,712
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)733,422
Traffic Trend
Technology
responstosay.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)0.2
Total Keywords13,378
Referring Domains12
Domain Age1 yr
Traffic (Jun 2026)708,864
Traffic Trend
Technology
nomadicmatt.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords65,713
Referring Domains17,435
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)692,445
Traffic Trend
Technology
seeingtennessee.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)5
Total Keywords4,027
Referring Domains44
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)681,350
Traffic Trend
Technology
beacheverywhere.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords13,008
Referring Domains37
Domain Age0 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)613,494
Traffic Trend
Technology