Ahrefs vs The SEO Framework
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Ahrefs · The SEO Framework · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Ahrefs · The SEO Framework · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
17,840
11,396
India
7,376
2,379
United Kingdom
5,803
3,796
Canada
4,491
2,856
Germany
4,455
1,355
Australia
3,549
2,037
Indonesia
3,639
1,332
Italy
2,498
2,367
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Ahrefs | The SEO Framework |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1000 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.
The SEO Framework to Ahrefs
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ntchito.com | Mar 2026 |
| seodesignchicago.com | Feb 2026 |
| manorrealestate.com | Feb 2026 |