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
1,759
Open Page Rank 7+
109
8,762
Open Page Rank 6+
230
19,985
Open Page Rank 5+
351
41,196
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
1,498
493,355
United Kingdom
513
173,098
Germany
325
170,655
France
309
166,610
India
735
159,648
Italy
266
157,731
Spain
282
139,896
Brazil
284
122,111
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, 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.
Yoast SEO to BrightEdge
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| paragonixtechnologies.com | Oct 2025 |