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 15,631

10,149

India 6,315

2,110

United Kingdom 5,088

3,331

Canada 3,888

2,520

Germany 3,839

1,187

Australia 3,108

1,842

Italy 2,267

2,093

Indonesia 3,144

1,141

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All Ahrefs sites · All The SEO Framework sites