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 15,903

493,355

United Kingdom 5,079

173,098

Germany 3,896

170,655

France 2,754

166,610

India 6,488

159,648

Italy 2,225

157,731

Spain 2,431

139,896

Brazil 2,009

122,111

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, Aug 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