🆚 SearchWP vs. Yoast SEO

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Yoast SEO is much more popular than SearchWP.
🌍 Yoast SEO is more popular in all countries.

Type

WordPress plugin

Search engine optimization tool

About

SearchWP is a WordPress search plugin that improves default WordPress site searching.

Yoast SEO is a WordPress search engine optimization plugin that helps optimize website content, metadata, and technical SEO settings to improve visibility in search engines.

It provides real-time SEO and readability analysis, customizable meta titles and descriptions, automatic XML sitemap generation, canonical URL tags, structured data using Schema.org markup, social metadata for Open Graph and Twitter Cards, breadcrumb navigation, and tools for managing robots directives and redirects.

Headquarters

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Wijchen, Netherlands

Website

searchwp.com #1,419,803

yoast.com #100,123

Pricing

Free version ✔️SearchWP Live Ajax Search, open source

Standard
(1 site)$199/year

Pro
(3 sites)$399/year

Agency
(unlimited sites)$699/year

Free version ✔️

Premium$99/year

Categories

WordPress Plugins › Rank #57

WordPress Plugins › Rank #1

SEO › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Yoast SEO tool is 82 times more popular than SearchWP.

Total websites

Market share

WordPress Plugins

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Yoast SEO is more popular than SearchWP in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Italy

Spain

Netherlands

Australia

Canada

Brazil

Awards

⬆️ 40th most popular in Finland in the WordPress Plugins category.
⬆️ 42nd most popular in France in the WordPress Plugins category.
⬆️ 43rd most popular in the Netherlands in the WordPress Plugins category.
⬆️ 43rd most popular in Norway in the WordPress Plugins category.
⬆️ 44th most popular in Canada in the WordPress Plugins category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the SEO category.
🥇 Most popular in the United States in the WordPress Plugins category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the SEO category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the WordPress Plugins category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the SEO category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Yoast SEO is more popular than SearchWP in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#297

#1,064

#2,921

#5,699

#7,627

Name

Rank

#297

ijavhd.com

#472

illuminateed.com

#556

clickpetroleoegas.com.br

#810

vailonxx.co

#832

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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