Is Apple Pay or Braintree more popular?

Apple Pay is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,063 use Apple Pay and 349 use Braintree.

Does Apple Pay or Braintree have higher-authority sites?

Braintree sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Apple Pay: 36, Braintree: 43).

Is Apple Pay or Braintree growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Apple Pay went from 0.29% to 0.23% of all tracked sites, while Braintree went from 0.05% to 0.04%. Braintree is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Apple Pay and Braintree?

42 websites in our catalog use both Apple Pay and Braintree.

Where does this Apple Pay vs Braintree 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.

Apple Pay vs Braintree — Site Stats Database

Apple Pay vs Braintree

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	Apple Pay	Braintree
Websites	2,063	349
Market share	4.9%	0.83%
Share of top 10K sites	0.73%	0.16%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#5	#12

Median DR	36	43

Average DR	37	44

Median keywords	1,191	2,257

Median referring domains	570	868

Median domain age	14 yrs	18 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	19 yrs

Average monthly traffic	183,760	241,474

Combined monthly traffic	379,097,327	84,274,500

nerdwallet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,520,511
Referring Domains128,479
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)40,890,258
Traffic Trend
TechnologyApple Pay
cnet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords3,252,836
Referring Domains443,193
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)36,478,571
Traffic Trend
TechnologyApple Pay
couponfollow.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords272,595
Referring Domains11,483
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,131,429
Traffic Trend
Technology
calculat.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords480,460
Referring Domains19,723
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)15,708,186
Traffic Trend
Technology
sallybeauty.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords273,060
Referring Domains16,782
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)15,357,905
Traffic Trend
Technology
hallmark.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords357,852
Referring Domains46,114
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,320,247
Traffic Trend
Technology
champssports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords336,417
Referring Domains3,864
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,641,915
Traffic Trend
Technology
michaelkors.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords78,042
Referring Domains18,769
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,185,707
Traffic Trend
Technology
cartier.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords94,606
Referring Domains25,419
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,948,748
Traffic Trend
Technology
lanebryant.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords137,613
Referring Domains6,418
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,581,112
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nerdwallet.com	English	90	1,520,511	128,479	17 yrs	40,890,258		Apple Pay

abercrombie.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords281,529
Referring Domains18,610
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)15,695,142
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBraintree
dsw.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords421,066
Referring Domains20,341
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,407,270
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBraintree
sharkninja.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords127,897
Referring Domains8,804
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,329,019
Traffic Trend
Technology
hollisterco.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords185,366
Referring Domains9,901
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,201,371
Traffic Trend
Technology
whataburger.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords60,207
Referring Domains7,052
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,391,225
Traffic Trend
Technology
aquasana.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords26,188
Referring Domains4,000
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,869,287
Traffic Trend
Technology
burpee.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords127,982
Referring Domains9,385
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,592,880
Traffic Trend
Technology
shopgoodwill.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords21,639
Referring Domains5,281
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,948,085
Traffic Trend
Technology
pgatoursuperstore.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords130,826
Referring Domains5,069
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,195,504
Traffic Trend
Technology
aeropostale.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords100,459
Referring Domains9,252
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,927,457
Traffic Trend
Technology