Is News or Obituaries bigger?

News has more websites in our catalog: 59,192 are News and 545 are Obituaries.

Which has higher-authority sites, News or Obituaries?

Obituaries has the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (News: 31, Obituaries: 54).

How many sites are in both News and Obituaries?

355 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.

News vs Obituaries Websites — Site Stats Database

News vs Obituaries

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	News	Obituaries
Websites	59,192	545
Market share	10%	0.1%
Rank	#1	#683
Median DR	31	54
Average DR

Median keywords	1,374	3,501

Median referring domains	562	1,504

Median domain age	15 yrs	25 yrs

Average domain age	16 yrs	22 yrs

Combined monthly traffic	16,756,042,850	114,959,426

Average monthly traffic	283,080	210,935

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

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Topic
merriam-webster.com	English	91	4,579,269	240,838	27 yrs	1,467,281,883		News

legacy.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords1,075,553
Referring Domains84,930
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)39,196,848
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
findagrave.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords346,365
Referring Domains69,536
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,166,193
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
oklahoman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords249,070
Referring Domains39,551
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,634,957
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
app.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords191,441
Referring Domains32,900
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,264,645
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
tributearchive.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords212,206
Referring Domains7,498
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,218,919
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
dispatch.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords311,016
Referring Domains67,919
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,095,404
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
providencejournal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords174,089
Referring Domains27,083
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,965,396
Traffic Trend
Topic
beaconjournal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords141,408
Referring Domains24,251
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,778,828
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
telegram.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords85,430
Referring Domains31,595
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,627,013
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries
genealogybank.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords45,340
Referring Domains5,696
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,594,864
Traffic Trend
TopicObituaries