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+
17
5
Open Page Rank 8+
145
34
Open Page Rank 7+
533
114
Open Page Rank 6+
999
236
Open Page Rank 5+
1,788
362
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
15,631
1,509
India
6,315
729
United Kingdom
5,088
525
Canada
3,888
645
Germany
3,839
316
Australia
3,108
350
Indonesia
3,144
285
France
2,700
314
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Ahrefs | BrightEdge |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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 |