Is Google Trust Services or Let's Encrypt more popular?

Let's Encrypt is used by more websites in our catalog: 228,244 use Google Trust Services and 466,882 use Let's Encrypt.

Does Google Trust Services or Let's Encrypt have higher-authority sites?

Google Trust Services sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Google Trust Services: 30, Let's Encrypt: 23).

Is Google Trust Services or Let's Encrypt growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Google Trust Services went from 30% to 26% of all tracked sites, while Let's Encrypt went from 59% to 53%. Google Trust Services is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Google Trust Services and Let's Encrypt?

No. A site runs a single SSL certificate authority, so Google Trust Services and Let's Encrypt are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Google Trust Services vs Let's Encrypt 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.

Google Trust Services vs Let's Encrypt — Site Stats Database

Google Trust Services vs Let's Encrypt

A side-by-side comparison of two ssl certificate authorities, based on the 842,065 SSL Authority sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Google Trust Services	Let's Encrypt
Websites	228,244	466,882
Market share	27%	55%
Share of top 10K sites	26%	30%

Share of top 100K sites	28%	44%

Rank	#2	#1

Median DR	30	23

Average DR	33	27

Median keywords	1,076	849

Median referring domains	450	270

Median domain age	12 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	128,871	108,181

Combined monthly traffic	29,414,009,983	50,507,691,242

youtube.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)99
Total Keywords157,188,909
Referring Domains18,877,970
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,508,519,347
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
google.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)99
Total Keywords14,321,906
Referring Domains28,301,335
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,697,994,676
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
fandom.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords21,866,615
Referring Domains405,077
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,021,137,487
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
clevelandclinic.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords5,266,698
Referring Domains262,751
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)536,244,433
Traffic Trend
Technology
cambridge.org
Language
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords4,651,462
Referring Domains357,733
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)527,148,452
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
quora.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords36,342,947
Referring Domains360,723
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)376,801,476
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
mlb.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,403,577
Referring Domains165,017
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)376,727,145
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
genius.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords3,824,896
Referring Domains148,123
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)274,953,050
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
indeed.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords6,459,977
Referring Domains289,179
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,330,877
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services
dictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords3,387,790
Referring Domains129,246
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,622,664
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGoogle Trust Services

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
youtube.com	English	99	157,188,909	18,877,970	21 yrs	3,508,519,347		Google Trust Services

wikipedia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords61,690,521
Referring Domains6,594,435
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,208,499,330
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
x.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords15,888,487
Referring Domains4,249,759
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)354,173,918
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
nfl.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords947,630
Referring Domains147,040
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)275,712,888
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
nba.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords758,560
Referring Domains186,338
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)239,244,892
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
stock.adobe.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords3,301,936
Referring Domains116,531
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)225,699,793
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
weather.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,098,961
Referring Domains132,221
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)221,232,646
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
expedia.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords4,797,516
Referring Domains112,144
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)208,730,561
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
target.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords10,174,393
Referring Domains208,795
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)204,573,119
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
vocabulary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords2,454,757
Referring Domains42,680
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)192,093,469
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt
allrecipes.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords3,491,845
Referring Domains151,904
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)166,334,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyLet's Encrypt