Is Gumroad or PayPal more popular?

PayPal is used by more websites in our catalog: 405 use Gumroad and 6,439 use PayPal.

Does Gumroad or PayPal have higher-authority sites?

Gumroad sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Gumroad: 27, PayPal: 25).

Is Gumroad or PayPal growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Gumroad went from 0.06% to 0.05% of all tracked sites, while PayPal went from 0.83% to 0.73%. Gumroad is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Gumroad and PayPal?

7 websites in our catalog use both Gumroad and PayPal.

Where does this Gumroad 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.

Gumroad vs PayPal — Site Stats Database

Gumroad 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	Gumroad	PayPal
Websites	405	6,439
Market share	0.96%	15%
Share of top 10K sites	0.02%	0.68%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#11	#3

Median DR	27	25

Average DR	28	27

Median keywords	1,239	992

Median referring domains	412	329

Median domain age	9 yrs	14 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	15 yrs

Average monthly traffic	34,147	66,743

Combined monthly traffic	13,829,613	429,759,976

newadvent.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords112,468
Referring Domains38,695
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,925,878
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGumroad
player03.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords981
Referring Domains517
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,015,643
Traffic Trend
Technology
wisdomquotes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords40,000
Referring Domains10,492
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)552,922
Traffic Trend
Technology
miakouppa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)34
Total Keywords14,526
Referring Domains1,350
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)461,353
Traffic Trend
Technology
freeusandworldmaps.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)26
Total Keywords4,550
Referring Domains2,550
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)431,395
Traffic Trend
Technology
giantitp.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords81,096
Referring Domains18,535
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)389,167
Traffic Trend
Technology
posemy.art
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)37
Total Keywords9,773
Referring Domains1,148
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)379,662
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGumroad
leelalicious.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords27,515
Referring Domains4,743
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)378,710
Traffic Trend
Technology
acharmingescape.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)8
Total Keywords7,395
Referring Domains278
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)328,176
Traffic Trend
Technology
hannahhendersontravel.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)22
Total Keywords5,107
Referring Domains486
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)303,575
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
newadvent.org	English	81	112,468	38,695	27 yrs	2,925,878		Gumroad

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