Quicklink vs Smush

Smush is used by more websites in our catalog: 271 use Quicklink and 12,124 use Smush.

Quicklink sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Quicklink: 37, Smush: 25).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Quicklink went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Smush went from 1.5% to 1.4%. Quicklink is gaining ground faster in our index.

3 websites in our catalog use both Quicklink 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.