LiteSpeed Cache vs Smush

LiteSpeed Cache is used by more websites in our catalog: 29,492 use LiteSpeed Cache and 12,124 use Smush.

Smush sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (LiteSpeed Cache: 16, Smush: 25).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, LiteSpeed Cache went from 3.7% to 3.3% of all tracked sites, while Smush went from 1.5% to 1.4%. Smush is gaining ground faster in our index.

1,089 websites in our catalog use both LiteSpeed Cache and Smush.

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.