bridge vs salient

salient is used by more websites in our catalog: 932 use bridge and 2,628 use salient.

salient sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (bridge: 26, salient: 27).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, bridge went from 0.10% to 0.11% of all tracked sites, while salient went from 0.30% to 0.30%. bridge is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so bridge 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.