Technology comparison

HT Mega 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.

VS
HT Mega
HT Mega
Widgets
26.4K
websites tracked
Top market
Germany
Over-indexes in
25 markets
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO
SEO
5.1M
websites tracked
Top market
United States
Over-indexes in
25 markets
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The short version. Yoast SEO has roughly 193x more sites overall (26.4K vs 5.1M). But the split flips by market: HT Mega over-indexes in India, Pakistan and Brazil, while Yoast SEO runs the majority in Viet Nam, Iran and Japan. Which one fits depends far more on your market than on raw totals.

Head to head

Where each technology comes out ahead, by dimension

Metric
HT Mega
Yoast SEO
Websites tracked
26,446
5,117,218Leads
Category
Widgets
SEO
Markets it over-indexes
25
25
Strongest single market
Germany (1.7K)
United States (465.4K)

Who leads each market

Share of the two technologies per country. The marker is HT Mega's 1% global share, so bars past it lean HT Mega.

HT MegaYoast SEO
🇧🇷Brazil
56.2K
🇵🇱Poland
108.3K
🇫🇷France
248.4K
🇩🇪Germany
348.8K
🇧🇪Belgium
53.1K
🇷🇺Russian Federation
81.6K
🇨🇭Switzerland
50.7K
🇨🇦Canada
103.6K
🇦🇺Australia
113.2K
🇮🇹Italy
212.1K
🇺🇸United States
465.4K
🇪🇸Spain
126.2K
🇬🇧United Kingdom
216.8K
🇳🇱Netherlands
220.7K
Country reflects each site's detected country signal (primary country or ccTLD).

Where to build

Building an app, theme or agency around one technology? This is where its sites actually concentrate.

HT Mega

Build for HT Mega

Markets where HT Mega punches above its global share
🇮🇳India2%1.1K sites
🇵🇰Pakistan2%127 sites
🇧🇷Brazil2%1.2K sites
🇲🇾Malaysia2%112 sites
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates2%162 sites
🇨🇴Colombia1%80 sites
🇦🇷Argentina1%147 sites
Yoast SEO

Build for Yoast SEO

Markets where Yoast SEO is overwhelmingly the default
🇻🇳Viet Nam100%24.7K sites
🇮🇷Iran100%20.4K sites
🇯🇵Japan100%30.6K sites
🇫🇮Finland100%26.1K sites
🇳🇿New Zealand100%17.2K sites
🇳🇱Netherlands100%220.7K sites
🇺🇦Ukraine100%8.9K sites
Opportunity signal

United States is the most one-sided market in this comparison: 465.4K Yoast SEO sites to 1.6K on HT Mega, 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

HT MegaChoose HT Mega if

  • You sell into India, Pakistan and Brazil, where it has real traction.
  • You value where it concentrates its footprint over sheer volume.
  • Your team is already invested in the HT Mega stack.

Yoast SEOChoose Yoast SEO if

  • You operate in Viet Nam, Iran and Japan, 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.

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