MonsterInsights vs WPMU DEV Smush

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

MonsterInsights · WPMU DEV Smush · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

MonsterInsights · WPMU DEV Smush · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 60,797

18,662

United Kingdom 18,437

6,662

India 14,252

7,461

Spain 11,858

5,998

Canada 12,647

4,194

France 12,240

4,588

Japan 14,750

1,946

Brazil 9,416

6,092

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All MonsterInsights sites · All WPMU DEV Smush sites