SMF on new websites
Open source PHP forum software for running online discussion boards.
Found via: StackScope Wider Web 38
SMF appeared on 14 new sites in the last 30 days.
These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
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14 new sites with SMF first seen in the last 30 days.
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Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026. Chart starts at first detection.
The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without SMF itself changing.
Coverage details
Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.
Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
Domain endings using SMF
38 sites, all time
- .com 47.4%
- .net 13.2%
- .site 13.2%
- .online 5.3%
- .us 5.3%
- .dev 2.6%
- .eu 2.6%
- .je 2.6%
- .tech 2.6%
- .uk 2.6%
- .xyz 2.6%
Community leaders
| Tool | % of sitesall time | % of categoryall time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
XenForo
|
<0.1% | 14.2% |
| #2 | – | Discourse | <0.1% | 11.0% |
| #3 | – |
Skool
|
<0.1% | 7.4% |
| #4 | ▼1 | Flarum | <0.1% | 6.1% |
| #5 | ▲4 | Discuz! | <0.1% | 6.0% |
| … | ||||
| #12 | – |
SMF
Current page
|
<0.1% | 2.2% |
Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Community tool. All 142 in Community →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
Google Hosted Libraries
|
34 | 93x |
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 StackScope Discovery works
The StackScope API serves all 38 sites using SMF, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.