Perfmatters vs Smush

Smush is used by more websites in our catalog: 7,535 use Perfmatters and 12,124 use Smush.

Perfmatters sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Perfmatters: 31, Smush: 25).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Perfmatters went from 1.1% to 0.86% of all tracked sites, while Smush went from 1.5% to 1.4%. Smush is gaining ground faster in our index.

174 websites in our catalog use both Perfmatters 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.