Is Cloudflare Rocket Loader or Smush more popular?

Cloudflare Rocket Loader is used by more websites in our catalog: 16,882 use Cloudflare Rocket Loader and 12,124 use Smush.

Does Cloudflare Rocket Loader or Smush have higher-authority sites?

Cloudflare Rocket Loader sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare Rocket Loader: 30, Smush: 25).

Is Cloudflare Rocket Loader or Smush growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare Rocket Loader went from 2.3% to 1.9% of all tracked sites, while Smush went from 1.5% to 1.4%. Smush is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Cloudflare Rocket Loader and Smush?

425 websites in our catalog use both Cloudflare Rocket Loader and Smush.

Where does this Cloudflare Rocket Loader vs Smush 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.

Cloudflare Rocket Loader vs Smush — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare Rocket Loader vs Smush

A side-by-side comparison of two performance monitoring tools, based on the 161,527 Performance sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Cloudflare Rocket Loader	Smush
Websites	16,882	12,124
Market share	10%	7.5%
Share of top 10K sites	1.3%	0.34%

Share of top 100K sites	1.8%	1.1%

Rank	#4	#5

Median DR	30	25

Average DR	32	27

Median keywords	1,214	948

Median referring domains	509	305

Median domain age	12 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	13 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	52,405	29,106

Combined monthly traffic	884,698,635	352,880,994

100daysofrealfood.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords71,262
Referring Domains9,393
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)22,075,250
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
guestreservations.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords620,813
Referring Domains14,541
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,523,732
Traffic Trend
Technology
gimmesomeoven.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords267,376
Referring Domains48,731
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,685,710
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
easemate.ai
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords31,731
Referring Domains2,281
Domain Age1 yr
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,535,413
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
lumenlearning.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords1,000,430
Referring Domains22,894
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,958,757
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
elgoog.im
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords12,563
Referring Domains4,324
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,256,196
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
encyclopedia.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords2,067,067
Referring Domains63,862
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,093,656
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
cafeastrology.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords108,368
Referring Domains21,047
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,807,176
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
downshiftology.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords302,355
Referring Domains11,893
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,343,937
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader
on3.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords564,434
Referring Domains34,487
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,340,810
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Rocket Loader

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
100daysofrealfood.com	English	68	71,262	9,393	16 yrs	22,075,250		Cloudflare Rocket Loader

nfcacademy.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)25
Total Keywords20,091
Referring Domains289
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,641,303
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
raisingcanes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords72,761
Referring Domains8,483
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,902,346
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
uconn.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords322,754
Referring Domains71,069
Domain Age38 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,881,512
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
udiscovermusic.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords269,245
Referring Domains30,284
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,516,052
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
taxfoundation.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords133,355
Referring Domains57,981
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,745,073
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
thekrogerco.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords6,513
Referring Domains4,953
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,224,031
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
logos.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords381,741
Referring Domains21,328
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,981,590
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
pauladeen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords98,765
Referring Domains14,341
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,228,965
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
themomedit.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords83,528
Referring Domains4,671
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,003,472
Traffic Trend
TechnologySmush
biblicalarchaeology.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords74,998
Referring Domains13,124
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,955,610
Traffic Trend
Technology