Freestar vs Rakuten

Freestar is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,803 use Freestar and 437 use Rakuten.

Freestar sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Freestar: 58, Rakuten: 19).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Freestar went from 0.28% to 0.20% of all tracked sites, while Rakuten went from 0.06% to 0.05%. Rakuten is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both Freestar and Rakuten.

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.