Image Placeholders vs Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 4,719 websites against 52 for Image Placeholders, and 27 sites use both. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.

Image Placeholders: 52
Yoast SEO: 4,719

Image Placeholders

Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which determines and stores the dominant color for newly uploaded images in the media library, then uses that as a placeholder background during front end image loads.

Indexed sites: 52
Share of WordPress plugins: 1%

Well-known sites using it

All 52 sites

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is a search engine optimisation plugin for WordPress and other platforms.

Indexed sites: 4,719
Share of WordPress plugins: 63%

Well-known sites using it

All 4,719 sites

Used together

27 sites run both Image Placeholders and Yoast SEO. That is 52% of the sites using Image Placeholders, the smaller of the two.

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