Is Hotjar or StatCounter more popular?

Hotjar is used by more websites in our catalog: 13,992 use Hotjar and 1,181 use StatCounter.

Does Hotjar or StatCounter have higher-authority sites?

Hotjar sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Hotjar: 36, StatCounter: 24).

Is Hotjar or StatCounter growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Hotjar went from 2.0% to 1.6% of all tracked sites, while StatCounter went from 0.16% to 0.13%. StatCounter is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Hotjar and StatCounter?

23 websites in our catalog use both Hotjar and StatCounter.

Where does this Hotjar vs StatCounter 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.

Hotjar vs StatCounter — Site Stats Database

Hotjar vs StatCounter

A side-by-side comparison of two analytics tools, based on the 511,739 Analytics sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Hotjar	StatCounter
Websites	13,992	1,181
Market share	2.7%	0.23%
Share of top 10K sites	1.5%	0.09%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#6	#19

Median DR	36	24

Average DR	38	26

Median keywords	1,257	957

Median referring domains	520	454

Median domain age	15 yrs	16 yrs

Average domain age	16 yrs	16 yrs

Average monthly traffic	72,192	34,983

Combined monthly traffic	1,010,110,649	41,315,084

investing.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords967,948
Referring Domains96,110
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)35,554,958
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
variety.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,592,613
Referring Domains284,622
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,879,858
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
rollingstone.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,594,859
Referring Domains282,640
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,854,417
Traffic Trend
Technology
hollywoodreporter.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,682,319
Referring Domains253,182
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,328,180
Traffic Trend
Technology
billboard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,234,871
Referring Domains203,759
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,997,204
Traffic Trend
Technology
utah.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords710,042
Referring Domains124,764
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,911,220
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
en.bab.la
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords1,787,904
Referring Domains11,132
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)13,445,104
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
deadline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,019,279
Referring Domains198,720
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)13,084,284
Traffic Trend
Technology
sheknows.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords677,012
Referring Domains110,881
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,598,435
Traffic Trend
Technology
umd.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords539,975
Referring Domains142,986
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,576,648
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
investing.com	English	89	967,948	96,110	31 yrs	35,554,958		Hotjar

celebdirtylaundry.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords50,268
Referring Domains11,016
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,647,023
Traffic Trend
TechnologyStatCounter
studiosuits.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords61,556
Referring Domains2,436
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,417,730
Traffic Trend
Technology
localtimes.info
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords63,120
Referring Domains11,370
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,097,459
Traffic Trend
Technology
averiecooks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords120,612
Referring Domains24,332
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,803,043
Traffic Trend
Technology
270towin.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords32,450
Referring Domains28,446
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,706,379
Traffic Trend
Technology
handluggageonly.co.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords57,099
Referring Domains7,663
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,302,856
Traffic Trend
Technology
i2symbol.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords46,421
Referring Domains4,387
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,254,363
Traffic Trend
Technology
altogetherchristmas.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)47
Total Keywords11,926
Referring Domains879
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,181,540
Traffic Trend
Technology
metricmetal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)25
Total Keywords13,371
Referring Domains672
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,099,130
Traffic Trend
Technology
whereyoueat.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)54
Total Keywords139,170
Referring Domains5,050
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)885,155
Traffic Trend
Technology