BrightEdge vs SmartCrawl

SmartCrawl is used by more websites in our catalog: 163 use BrightEdge and 7,225 use SmartCrawl.

BrightEdge sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (BrightEdge: 54, SmartCrawl: 22).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, BrightEdge went from 0.02% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while SmartCrawl went from 0.86% to 0.82%. BrightEdge is gaining ground faster in our index.

1 websites in our catalog use both BrightEdge and SmartCrawl.

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.