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+
2
6
Open Page Rank 8+
10
35
Open Page Rank 7+
56
89
Open Page Rank 6+
87
125
Open Page Rank 5+
133
177
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
1,323
1,030
India
474
904
United Kingdom
408
616
Canada
424
530
Brazil
245
515
Australia
266
458
Germany
224
494
Indonesia
186
500
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Beehiiv | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.