Smush vs WP Super Cache

Smush is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,124 use Smush and 7,002 use WP Super Cache.

WP Super Cache sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Smush: 25, WP Super Cache: 29).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Smush went from 1.5% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while WP Super Cache went from 0.88% to 0.79%. WP Super Cache is gaining ground faster in our index.

290 websites in our catalog use both Smush and WP Super 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.