Is Drupal or SMF more popular?

Drupal is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,040 use Drupal and 117 use SMF.

Does Drupal or SMF have higher-authority sites?

Drupal sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Drupal: 59, SMF: 14).

Is Drupal or SMF growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Drupal went from 1.7% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while SMF went from 0.02% to 0.01%. SMF is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Drupal and SMF?

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Drupal and SMF are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Drupal vs SMF 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.

Drupal vs SMF — Site Stats Database

Drupal vs SMF

A side-by-side comparison of two content management systems, based on the 515,058 CMS sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Drupal	SMF
Websites	12,040	117
Market share	2.3%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	5.3%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#7	#86

Median DR	59	14

Average DR	54	19

Median keywords	1,775	644

Median referring domains	1,669	310

Median domain age	23 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	21 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	316,310	7,091

Combined monthly traffic	3,808,378,350	829,682

nih.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords8,823,555
Referring Domains1,431,267
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)449,766,532
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
worldometers.info
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords472,275
Referring Domains82,483
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)113,278,446
Traffic Trend
Technology
irs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords973,833
Referring Domains280,852
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)75,413,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
ny.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,725,638
Referring Domains197,908
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)73,119,082
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
usa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords733,178
Referring Domains140,078
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)68,698,972
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
europa.eu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords759,110
Referring Domains2,213,654
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)64,108,914
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
almanac.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords932,777
Referring Domains73,599
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)63,656,636
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
ncaa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords450,724
Referring Domains61,708
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)38,619,244
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
usgs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords678,250
Referring Domains186,469
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)37,752,864
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
wa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,323,378
Referring Domains154,980
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,128,393
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nih.gov	English	95	8,823,555	1,431,267	28 yrs	449,766,532		Drupal

tropicalfruitforum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)32
Total Keywords32,795
Referring Domains892
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)55,775
Traffic Trend
TechnologySMF
learngospelmusic.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)1.5
Total Keywords11,007
Referring Domains226
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)53,736
Traffic Trend
Technology
forestryforum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)47
Total Keywords30,903
Referring Domains2,268
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)49,595
Traffic Trend
Technology
chemicalforums.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)34
Total Keywords21,566
Referring Domains1,123
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)44,932
Traffic Trend
Technology
pacificbulbsociety.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords6,311
Referring Domains2,159
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)41,976
Traffic Trend
Technology
geekhack.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords12,518
Referring Domains4,086
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)40,290
Traffic Trend
TechnologySMF
ballreviews.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords10,572
Referring Domains804
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)37,972
Traffic Trend
Technology
thefora.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)4.7
Total Keywords1,107
Referring Domains56
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,204
Traffic Trend
TechnologySMF
allposterforum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)8
Total Keywords544
Referring Domains247
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,019
Traffic Trend
Technology
bitcointalk.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords11,493
Referring Domains45,974
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)23,450
Traffic Trend
Technology