Beehiiv vs Medium
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Beehiiv · Medium · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
6
Open Page Rank 8+
10
41
Open Page Rank 7+
57
102
Open Page Rank 6+
88
144
Open Page Rank 5+
134
204
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Beehiiv · Medium · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,378
1,153
India
542
1,047
United Kingdom
453
729
Canada
463
608
Australia
297
539
Brazil
255
573
France
223
575
Germany
251
545
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Beehiiv | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.