SEOmatic vs Yoast SEO
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
SEOmatic · Yoast SEO · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
7
88
Open Page Rank 8+
52
1,750
Open Page Rank 7+
177
8,651
Open Page Rank 6+
399
19,709
Open Page Rank 5+
768
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
SEOmatic · Yoast SEO · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,219
479,358
United Kingdom
1,868
171,547
France
595
169,412
Germany
881
165,923
Italy
490
165,450
India
924
156,702
Spain
411
148,948
Brazil
321
117,782
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | SEOmatic | Yoast SEO |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.
SEOmatic to Yoast SEO
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| simoncommunity.org | Jun 2026 |
| roulottesgagnon.com | Mar 2026 |
| duplantisdesigngroup.com | Jan 2026 |
| asrsq.ca | Nov 2025 |
Yoast SEO to SEOmatic
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| rigrun.com | Mar 2026 |
| legendscasino.com | Oct 2025 |