Foundation vs Shoelace

Foundation is used by more websites in our catalog: 8,731 use Foundation and 599 use Shoelace.

Foundation sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Foundation: 32, Shoelace: 29).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Foundation went from 1.1% to 0.99% of all tracked sites, while Shoelace went from 0.08% to 0.07%. Shoelace is gaining ground faster in our index.

6 websites in our catalog use both Foundation and Shoelace.

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.