Smush vs WP Rocket

WP Rocket is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,124 use Smush and 45,717 use WP Rocket.

WP Rocket sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Smush: 25, WP Rocket: 26).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Smush went from 1.5% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while WP Rocket went from 6.2% to 5.2%. Smush is gaining ground faster in our index.

1,472 websites in our catalog use both Smush and WP Rocket.

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.