BrightEdge vs Yoast SEO
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
BrightEdge · Yoast SEO · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
85
Open Page Rank 8+
30
1,791
Open Page Rank 7+
109
8,906
Open Page Rank 6+
231
20,365
Open Page Rank 5+
349
42,032
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
BrightEdge · Yoast SEO · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,622
560,763
France
393
202,809
United Kingdom
590
200,106
Germany
388
192,953
Italy
316
185,647
India
818
184,809
Spain
335
164,370
Canada
737
135,675
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | BrightEdge | Yoast SEO |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1200 ms |
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.
Yoast SEO to BrightEdge
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| paragonixtechnologies.com | Oct 2025 |