Is Afterpay or PayPal more popular?

PayPal is used by more websites in our catalog: 316 use Afterpay and 6,439 use PayPal.

Does Afterpay or PayPal have higher-authority sites?

Afterpay sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Afterpay: 28, PayPal: 25).

Is Afterpay or PayPal growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Afterpay went from 0.05% to 0.04% of all tracked sites, while PayPal went from 0.83% to 0.73%. Afterpay is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Afterpay and PayPal?

29 websites in our catalog use both Afterpay and PayPal.

Where does this Afterpay vs PayPal 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.

Afterpay vs PayPal — Site Stats Database

Afterpay vs PayPal

A side-by-side comparison of two payment processors, based on the 42,046 Payments sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Afterpay	PayPal
Websites	316	6,439
Market share	0.75%	15%
Share of top 10K sites	0.11%	0.68%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#13	#3

Median DR	28	25

Average DR	30	27

Median keywords	1,007	992

Median referring domains	340	329

Median domain age	12 yrs	14 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	15 yrs

Average monthly traffic	157,437	66,743

Combined monthly traffic	49,750,096	429,759,976

balsamhill.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords119,450
Referring Domains5,692
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,852,576
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAfterpay
shoecarnival.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords226,969
Referring Domains4,375
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,331,286
Traffic Trend
Technology
carters.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords121,423
Referring Domains14,925
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,936,274
Traffic Trend
Technology
us.ohpolly.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords137,397
Referring Domains2,638
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,770,431
Traffic Trend
Technology
roomstogo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords234,292
Referring Domains12,234
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,751,434
Traffic Trend
Technology
puma.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords100,976
Referring Domains46,808
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,245,253
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAfterpay
surlatable.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords162,546
Referring Domains23,784
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,049,646
Traffic Trend
Technology
shoestation.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)39
Total Keywords97,234
Referring Domains1,158
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,995,794
Traffic Trend
Technology
buckle.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords193,498
Referring Domains5,204
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,975,235
Traffic Trend
Technology
macduggal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords52,934
Referring Domains2,118
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,953,164
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
balsamhill.com	English	70	119,450	5,692	24 yrs	6,852,576		Afterpay

discounttire.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords356,298
Referring Domains6,942
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,959,321
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
tcgplayer.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords534,734
Referring Domains19,103
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)21,710,744
Traffic Trend
Technology
budget.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords169,591
Referring Domains20,118
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,712,803
Traffic Trend
Technology
poshmark.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords3,080,047
Referring Domains34,854
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,567,827
Traffic Trend
Technology
paypal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords161,744
Referring Domains925,390
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,940,876
Traffic Trend
Technology
dsw.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords421,066
Referring Domains20,341
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,407,270
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
billyparisi.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords195,563
Referring Domains5,846
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,643,155
Traffic Trend
Technology
zales.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords185,768
Referring Domains9,009
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,415,132
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
jared.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords158,244
Referring Domains6,172
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,119,092
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
carparts.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords537,511
Referring Domains13,442
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,050,587
Traffic Trend
Technology