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+
54
1,759
Open Page Rank 7+
179
8,762
Open Page Rank 6+
401
19,985
Open Page Rank 5+
774
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
SEOmatic · Yoast SEO · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,234
493,355
United Kingdom
1,828
173,098
Germany
895
170,655
France
616
166,610
India
967
159,648
Italy
468
157,731
Spain
396
139,896
Brazil
317
122,111
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, 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.
SEOmatic to Yoast SEO
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| simoncommunity.org | Jun 2026 |
| 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 |