Liferay vs SMF

Liferay is used by more websites in our catalog: 462 use Liferay and 117 use SMF.

Liferay sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Liferay: 65, SMF: 14).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Liferay went from 0.05% to 0.05% of all tracked sites, while SMF went from 0.02% to 0.01%. Liferay is gaining ground faster in our index.

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

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.