Ahrefs vs Yoast SEO

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Ahrefs · Yoast SEO · 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 · Yoast SEO · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 15,631

479,358

United Kingdom 5,088

171,547

France 2,700

169,412

Germany 3,839

165,923

Italy 2,267

165,450

India 6,315

156,702

Spain 2,531

148,948

Brazil 2,016

117,782

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 Yoast SEO sites