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 17,840

560,763

France 3,476

202,809

United Kingdom 5,803

200,106

Germany 4,455

192,953

India 7,376

184,809

Italy 2,498

185,647

Spain 2,797

164,370

Canada 4,491

135,675

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, 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.

All Ahrefs sites · All Yoast SEO sites