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+
149
30
Open Page Rank 7+
538
109
Open Page Rank 6+
1,009
231
Open Page Rank 5+
1,817
349
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
17,840
1,622
India
7,376
818
United Kingdom
5,803
590
Canada
4,491
737
Germany
4,455
388
Australia
3,549
416
Indonesia
3,639
313
France
3,476
393
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, Jun 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 |