Performance Lab vs Yoast SEO
A side by side look at reach, regional footprint and where each wordpress plugins technology actually wins, built from live detections across millions of websites.
The short version. Yoast SEO has roughly 393634x more sites overall (13 vs 5.1M). But the split flips by market: Performance Lab over-indexes in Denmark, Poland and Brazil, while Yoast SEO runs the majority in United States, Germany and France. Which one fits depends far more on your market than on raw totals.
Head to head
Where each technology comes out ahead, by dimension
Who leads each market
Share of the two technologies per country. The marker is Performance Lab's 0% global share, so bars past it lean Performance Lab.
Where to build
Building an app, theme or agency around one technology? This is where its sites actually concentrate.
Build for Performance Lab
Build for Yoast SEO
United States is the most one-sided market in this comparison: 465.8K Yoast SEO sites to 0 on Performance Lab, a 100% split. For a new project there, the ecosystem, plugins and talent all point one way.
Which should you choose
A quick read based on reach and regional traction
Choose Performance Lab if
- ✓You sell into Denmark, Poland and Brazil, where it has real traction.
- ✓You value where it concentrates its footprint over sheer volume.
- ✓Your team is already invested in the Performance Lab stack.
Choose Yoast SEO if
- ✓You operate in United States, Germany and France, its heartland.
- ✓You want the larger install base (5.1M sites) and a bigger ecosystem.
- ✓Your team is already invested in the Yoast SEO stack.
Export the websites behind either technology
Get the sites using Performance Lab or Yoast SEO with emails, socials and country filters.