🆚 Wordfence vs. Yoast SEO

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Security tool
Search engine optimization tool

About

Wordfence is a WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code.

It features an endpoint firewall integrated directly with WordPress, malware detection for over 44,000 known variants, file integrity checks against the WordPress repository, brute force login protection with two-factor authentication, real-time traffic monitoring, and IP and country blocking.

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

Seattle, Washington, United States
Wijchen, Netherlands

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️30-day delay on firewall rules and malware signatures
Premium
(real-time signatures)
$149/year
Care
(hands-on support)
$490/year
Response
(1-hour response time)
$1250/year
Free version ✔️
Premium$99/year

Categories

Security › Rank #4
WordPress Plugins › Rank #25
WordPress Plugins › Rank #1
SEO › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Yoast SEO tool is 19 times more popular than Wordfence.
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 Wordfence in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Australia
Canada
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Yoast SEO is more popular than Wordfence in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#7,689
#8,121
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Name
Rank
ijavhd.com
#472
vailonxx.co
#832
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See also

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