A side-by-side comparison of two monitoring & error tracking tools, based on the 35,630 Monitoring sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | Datadog RUM | New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| Websites | 3,018 | 9,950 |
| Market share | 8.5% | 28% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 0.83% | 2.6% |
| Share of top 100K sites |
| 0.34% |
| 1.9% |
| Rank | #5 | #1 |
|---|
| Median DR | 19 | 35 |
|---|
| Average DR | 28 | 38 |
|---|
| Median keywords | 439 | 1,413 |
|---|
| Median referring domains | 136 | 490 |
|---|
| Median domain age | 9 yrs | 19 yrs |
|---|
| Average domain age | 12 yrs | 19 yrs |
|---|
| Average monthly traffic | 311,319 | 181,216 |
|---|
| Combined monthly traffic | 939,559,687 | 1,803,095,483 |
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Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
3,018 websites · rank #5
Top industries
Top markets
9,950 websites · rank #1
Top industries
Top markets
New Relic is used by more websites in our catalog: 3,018 use Datadog RUM and 9,950 use New Relic.
New Relic sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Datadog RUM: 19, New Relic: 35).
Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Datadog RUM went from 0.39% to 0.34% of all tracked sites, while New Relic went from 1.2% to 1.1%. Datadog RUM is gaining ground faster in our index.
46 websites in our catalog use both Datadog RUM and New Relic.
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.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "Datadog RUM vs New Relic." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/monitoring/compare/datadog-rum-vs-new-relic
Site Stats Database tracks 3,018 websites using Datadog RUM and 9,950 using New Relic, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every monitoring / error-tracking tool by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 77 |
| 1,056,567 |
| 14,119 |
| 27 yrs |
| 106,219,521 |
| Datadog RUM |
| go.com | English | 92 | 913,868 | 604,602 | 28 yrs | 72,794,971 | Datadog RUM |
| substack.com | English | 94 | 5,643,513 | 561,764 | 16 yrs | 51,156,090 | Datadog RUM |
| alltrails.com | English | 89 | 1,038,739 | 104,963 | 21 yrs | 35,078,872 | Datadog RUM |
| usbank.com | English | 85 | 385,756 | 37,150 | 31 yrs | 24,567,736 | Datadog RUM |
| bleacherreport.com | English | 84 | 1,247,726 | 132,611 | 20 yrs | 24,277,274 | Datadog RUM |
| marvel.com | English | 84 | 275,398 | 79,713 | 29 yrs | 16,555,205 | Datadog RUM |
| acehardware.com | English | 83 | 1,105,931 | 29,144 | 30 yrs | 16,386,155 | Datadog RUM |
| ingles.com | Spanish | 68 | 629,758 | 5,272 | 29 yrs | 12,957,031 | Datadog RUM |
| English |
| 92 |
| 1,198,840 |
| 511,286 |
| 40 yrs |
| 45,915,915 |
| New Relic |
| foodnetwork.com | English | 90 | 2,320,576 | 180,804 | 30 yrs | 44,602,039 | New Relic |
| answers.com | English | 82 | 2,788,216 | 111,941 | 30 yrs | 40,029,142 | New Relic |
| ncaa.com | English | 84 | 450,724 | 61,708 | 28 yrs | 38,619,244 | New Relic |
| mathway.com | English | 66 | 337,988 | 7,252 | 21 yrs | 33,315,361 | New Relic |
| kids.nationalgeographic.com | English | 91 | 292,465 | 34,302 | 30 yrs | 29,367,146 | New Relic |
| capitalone.com | English | 86 | 931,433 | 55,796 | 31 yrs | 28,603,710 | New Relic |
| tcgplayer.com | English | 82 | 534,734 | 19,103 | 21 yrs | 21,710,744 | New Relic |
| paramountplus.com | English | 85 | 549,551 | 69,118 | 14 yrs | 21,298,141 | New Relic |