Is PayPal or Stripe more popular?

Stripe is used by more websites in our catalog: 6,439 use PayPal and 6,774 use Stripe.

Does PayPal or Stripe have higher-authority sites?

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

Is PayPal or Stripe growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, PayPal went from 0.83% to 0.73% of all tracked sites, while Stripe went from 0.85% to 0.77%. Stripe is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both PayPal and Stripe?

542 websites in our catalog use both PayPal and Stripe.

Where does this PayPal vs Stripe 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.

PayPal vs Stripe — Site Stats Database

PayPal vs Stripe

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	PayPal	Stripe
Websites	6,439	6,774
Market share	15%	16%
Share of top 10K sites	0.68%	0.70%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#3	#2

Median DR	25	31

Average DR	27	33

Median keywords	992	1,076

Median referring domains	329	370

Median domain age	14 yrs	13 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	66,743	64,988

Combined monthly traffic	429,759,976	440,227,600

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

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
discounttire.com	English	72	356,298	6,942	29 yrs	24,959,321		PayPal

aldi.us
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords288,739
Referring Domains17,876
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,285,693
Traffic Trend
TechnologyStripe
scribd.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords8,482,756
Referring Domains463,710
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)29,006,054
Traffic Trend
Technology
resy.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords417,634
Referring Domains27,313
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,705,011
Traffic Trend
TechnologyStripe
americanpregnancy.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords220,739
Referring Domains27,498
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,406,208
Traffic Trend
Technology
broadway.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords167,594
Referring Domains28,242
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,252,998
Traffic Trend
Technology
911memorial.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords29,140
Referring Domains17,062
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,256,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
101cookbooks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords90,184
Referring Domains19,898
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,901,220
Traffic Trend
Technology
slicelife.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords291,420
Referring Domains21,094
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,585,304
Traffic Trend
Technology
styleseat.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords201,512
Referring Domains7,866
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,312,921
Traffic Trend
Technology
scottsmiraclegro.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords149,805
Referring Domains6,807
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,816,139
Traffic Trend
Technology