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
88
Open Page Rank 8+
27
1,750
Open Page Rank 7+
106
8,651
Open Page Rank 6+
225
19,709
Open Page Rank 5+
347
40,650
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
1,509
479,358
United Kingdom
525
171,547
France
314
169,412
Germany
316
165,923
Italy
280
165,450
India
729
156,702
Spain
300
148,948
Brazil
293
117,782
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | BrightEdge | Yoast SEO |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 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, Sep 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 |