Newspaper vs smart-mag

Newspaper is used by more websites in our catalog: 3,296 use Newspaper and 1,021 use smart-mag.

Newspaper and smart-mag sites have a similar median Ahrefs Domain Rating.

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Newspaper went from 0.48% to 0.37% of all tracked sites, while smart-mag went from 0.15% to 0.12%. smart-mag is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so Newspaper and smart-mag 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.