Freestar vs Setupad

Freestar is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,803 use Freestar and 939 use Setupad.

Freestar sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Freestar: 58, Setupad: 41).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Freestar went from 0.28% to 0.20% of all tracked sites, while Setupad went from 0.14% to 0.11%. Setupad is gaining ground faster in our index.

5 websites in our catalog use both Freestar and Setupad.

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.