Ahrefs vs Yoast SEO Premium

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 15,903

61,801

India 6,488

22,526

United Kingdom 5,079

22,434

Germany 3,896

18,875

Canada 3,892

17,708

Brazil 2,009

14,605

France 2,754

13,572

Spain 2,431

13,721

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 Premium sites