bimber vs salient

salient is used by more websites in our catalog: 278 use bimber and 2,628 use salient.

salient sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (bimber: 22, salient: 27).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, bimber went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while salient went from 0.30% to 0.30%. salient is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so bimber and salient are mutually exclusive.

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.