Is Design or News bigger?

News has more websites in our catalog: 18,705 are Design and 59,192 are News.

Which has higher-authority sites, Design or News?

News has the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Design: 30, News: 31).

How many sites are in both Design and News?

1,203 websites in our catalog match both.

Where does this data come from?

Counts come from Site Stats Database's own crawl and classification; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Design vs News Websites — Site Stats Database

Design vs News

A side-by-side comparison of two topics, based on the 578,597 websites Site Stats Database classifies into a topic.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Design	News
Websites	18,705	59,192
Market share	3.2%	10%
Rank	#6	#1
Median DR	30	31
Average DR

Median keywords	827	1,374

Median referring domains	368	562

Median domain age	13 yrs	15 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	16 yrs

Combined monthly traffic	1,288,093,546	16,756,042,850

Average monthly traffic	68,864	283,080

rapidtables.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords410,849
Referring Domains12,076
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)177,772,574
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
ikea.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,148,354
Referring Domains275,573
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)74,695,018
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
thekitchn.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords2,047,860
Referring Domains74,585
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)73,533,726
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
quillbot.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords398,745
Referring Domains23,174
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,335,230
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
geeksforgeeks.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords1,877,851
Referring Domains83,223
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)36,443,558
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
thespruce.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords2,309,818
Referring Domains199,858
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,091,273
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
xbox.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords545,652
Referring Domains130,735
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,155,602
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
vecteezy.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords1,697,622
Referring Domains168,038
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,553,762
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
thepioneerwoman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords1,254,037
Referring Domains75,879
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)23,705,067
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign
tasteofhome.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords1,710,618
Referring Domains135,948
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,390,049
Traffic Trend
TopicDesign

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Topic
rapidtables.com	English	79	410,849	12,076	19 yrs	177,772,574		Design

merriam-webster.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords4,579,269
Referring Domains240,838
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,467,281,883
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
espn.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords4,106,588
Referring Domains255,313
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,425,283,167
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
yahoo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords23,561,825
Referring Domains2,118,636
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)639,658,909
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
weather.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,156,559
Referring Domains130,903
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)560,457,254
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
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
TopicNews
nfl.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords947,630
Referring Domains147,040
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)275,712,888
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
nytimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords9,214,622
Referring Domains1,473,314
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)256,700,108
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
nba.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords758,560
Referring Domains186,338
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)239,244,892
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
vocabulary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords2,454,757
Referring Domains42,680
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)192,093,469
Traffic Trend
TopicNews
cbssports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords2,087,935
Referring Domains92,040
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)158,931,226
Traffic Trend
TopicNews