Is Ghost or SMF more popular?

Ghost is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 117 use SMF.

Does Ghost or SMF have higher-authority sites?

Ghost sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, SMF: 14).

Is Ghost or SMF growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% 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 Ghost and SMF?

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

Where does this Ghost 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.

Ghost vs SMF — Site Stats Database

Ghost 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	Ghost	SMF
Websites	775	117
Market share	0.15%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#86

Median DR	34	14

Average DR	35	19

Median keywords	997	644

Median referring domains	393	310

Median domain age	7 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	7,091

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	829,682

allbud.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords81,210
Referring Domains4,878
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,897,288
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost
blog.duolingo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords48,347
Referring Domains7,397
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,884,812
Traffic Trend
Technology
bestfreestreaming.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)6
Total Keywords6,973
Referring Domains252
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,284,080
Traffic Trend
Technology
alisoneroman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords21,747
Referring Domains2,228
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,183,351
Traffic Trend
Technology
roadrunner.travel
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords40,115
Referring Domains3,357
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)845,158
Traffic Trend
Technology
retrododo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords47,167
Referring Domains8,068
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)818,794
Traffic Trend
Technology
wheelchairtravel.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords7,654
Referring Domains2,838
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)446,858
Traffic Trend
Technology
gamingtrend.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords49,133
Referring Domains7,940
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)396,941
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.gratefulness.me
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords40,731
Referring Domains4,386
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)354,956
Traffic Trend
Technology
exploros.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords44,249
Referring Domains924
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)334,928
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
allbud.com	English	77	81,210	4,878	22 yrs	1,897,288		Ghost

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