Simple Staff List 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 1961x more sites overall (2.6K vs 5.1M). But the split flips by market: Simple Staff List over-indexes in Norway, United States and Sweden, while Yoast SEO runs the majority in Iran, Singapore and Colombia. 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 Simple Staff List's 0% global share, so bars past it lean Simple Staff List.
Where to build
Building an app, theme or agency around one technology? This is where its sites actually concentrate.
Build for Simple Staff List
Build for Yoast SEO
United States is the most one-sided market in this comparison: 465.8K Yoast SEO sites to 609 on Simple Staff List, 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 Simple Staff List if
- ✓You sell into Norway, United States and Sweden, where it has real traction.
- ✓You value where it concentrates its footprint over sheer volume.
- ✓Your team is already invested in the Simple Staff List stack.
Choose Yoast SEO if
- ✓You operate in Iran, Singapore and Colombia, 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 Simple Staff List or Yoast SEO with emails, socials and country filters.