Is Braintree or PayPal more popular?

PayPal is used by more websites in our catalog: 349 use Braintree and 6,439 use PayPal.

Does Braintree or PayPal have higher-authority sites?

Braintree sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Braintree: 43, PayPal: 25).

Is Braintree or PayPal growing faster?

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

How many sites use both Braintree and PayPal?

73 websites in our catalog use both Braintree and PayPal.

Where does this Braintree 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.

Braintree vs PayPal — Site Stats Database

Braintree 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	Braintree	PayPal
Websites	349	6,439
Market share	0.83%	15%
Share of top 10K sites	0.16%	0.68%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#12	#3

Median DR	43	25

Average DR	44	27

Median keywords	2,257	992

Median referring domains	868	329

Median domain age	18 yrs	14 yrs

Average domain age	19 yrs	15 yrs

Average monthly traffic	241,474	66,743

Combined monthly traffic	84,274,500	429,759,976

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

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
abercrombie.com	English	77	281,529	18,610	31 yrs	15,695,142		Braintree

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