Smush vs W3 Total Cache

Smush is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,124 use Smush and 10,078 use W3 Total Cache.

W3 Total Cache sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Smush: 25, W3 Total Cache: 26).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Smush went from 1.5% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while W3 Total Cache went from 1.3% to 1.1%. Smush is gaining ground faster in our index.

483 websites in our catalog use both Smush and W3 Total Cache.

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.