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SMF on new websites

Open source PHP forum software for running online discussion boards.

Sites using SMF
38
since Jul 2026
Last 30 days
0.0%
of new sites, to Oct 19
no change on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.0%
of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
Rank in Community
#12
of 146 tools, all time
First seen Jul 15, 2026
Last seen Oct 13, 2026
Website simplemachines.org

What we found

  1. SMF appeared on 14 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
  2. Nine in ten new SMF sites also use jQuery.

Share of new sites using SMF

0.0000% 0.0005% 0.0010% 0.0015% 0.0020% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use SMF, since 10 September.

What SMF runs on

Runs on
PHP

Who uses SMF

Domain ending 38 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 18 47.4%
.net 5 13.2%
.site 5 13.2%
.online 2 5.3%
.us 2 5.3%
.dev 1 2.6%
.eu 1 2.6%
.je 1 2.6%
.tech 1 2.6%
.uk 1 2.6%
.xyz 1 2.6%

Community on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category Bar
1 – XenForo <0.1% 14.2%
2 – Discourse <0.1% 10.9%
3 – Skool <0.1% 7.4%
4 ▼1 phpBB <0.1% 6.1%
5 ▲4 Discuz! <0.1% 6.1%
…
12 – SMF <0.1% 2.1%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Community tool. All 146 in Community

Often used with SMF

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
Google Hosted Libraries 34 94x
jQuery 35 6.5x

Tools that turn up far more often on SMF sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

38 sites across the wider web use SMF

None of them is a product launch we list individually, so there is nothing to show here. They still count towards the figures above. How we find new sites

Watches, exports and the API give you all 38 sites using SMF, from £15 a month.

Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.

How this page is made

FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards SMF when we detect SMF on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies ยท How we find new sites

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