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+
8
85
Open Page Rank 8+
57
1,791
Open Page Rank 7+
183
8,906
Open Page Rank 6+
406
20,365
Open Page Rank 5+
782
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
SEOmatic · Yoast SEO · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,562
560,763
France
703
202,809
United Kingdom
2,141
200,106
Germany
1,011
192,953
Italy
505
185,647
India
1,064
184,809
Spain
469
164,370
Canada
1,185
135,675
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 | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.
SEOmatic to Yoast SEO
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| roulottesgagnon.com | Mar 2026 |
| duplantisdesigngroup.com | Jan 2026 |
| asrsq.ca | Nov 2025 |
| rollingcenter.co.uk | Sep 2025 |
Yoast SEO to SEOmatic
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| rigrun.com | Mar 2026 |
| legendscasino.com | Oct 2025 |