Ahrefs vs BrightEdge
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Ahrefs · BrightEdge · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
18
3
Open Page Rank 8+
148
30
Open Page Rank 7+
536
109
Open Page Rank 6+
1,011
230
Open Page Rank 5+
1,818
351
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Ahrefs · BrightEdge · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
15,903
1,498
India
6,488
735
United Kingdom
5,079
513
Canada
3,892
651
Germany
3,896
325
Australia
3,216
355
Indonesia
3,129
274
France
2,754
309
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Ahrefs | BrightEdge |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
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.
Ahrefs to BrightEdge
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| flinnsci.ca | May 2026 |
BrightEdge to Ahrefs
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hufriedygroup.com | Jul 2026 |