Is Patreon or PayPal more popular?

PayPal is used by more websites in our catalog: 570 use Patreon and 6,439 use PayPal.

Does Patreon or PayPal have higher-authority sites?

Patreon sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Patreon: 31, PayPal: 25).

Is Patreon or PayPal growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Patreon went from 0.08% to 0.06% of all tracked sites, while PayPal went from 0.83% to 0.73%. Patreon is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Patreon and PayPal?

40 websites in our catalog use both Patreon and PayPal.

Where does this Patreon 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.

Patreon vs PayPal — Site Stats Database

Patreon 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	Patreon	PayPal
Websites	570	6,439
Market share	1.4%	15%
Share of top 10K sites	0.00%	0.68%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#9	#3

Median DR	31	25

Average DR	33	27

Median keywords	1,049	992

Median referring domains	539	329

Median domain age	11 yrs	14 yrs

Average domain age	12 yrs	15 yrs

Average monthly traffic	24,692	66,743

Combined monthly traffic	14,074,332	429,759,976

tflcar.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords48,704
Referring Domains9,744
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)555,571
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPatreon
alternateending.com
LanguagePolish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords35,240
Referring Domains3,848
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)467,983
Traffic Trend
Technology
tabletopbellhop.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords7,329
Referring Domains935
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)454,656
Traffic Trend
Technology
acousticguitar.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords24,130
Referring Domains3,380
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)450,835
Traffic Trend
Technology
grimdarkmagazine.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords14,601
Referring Domains1,551
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)424,446
Traffic Trend
Technology
batman-on-film.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords5,746
Referring Domains2,114
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)354,952
Traffic Trend
Technology
wikifeet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords37,791
Referring Domains35,136
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)291,606
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPatreon
leonardmaltin.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords6,855
Referring Domains1,378
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)265,544
Traffic Trend
Technology
commoncoresheets.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)49
Total Keywords25,357
Referring Domains6,020
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)240,942
Traffic Trend
Technology
nofspodcast.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords11,006
Referring Domains3,060
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)224,481
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
tflcar.com	English	58	48,704	9,744	8 yrs	555,571		Patreon

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
TechnologyPayPal
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
TechnologyPayPal
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