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
4
Open Page Rank 8+
12
23
Open Page Rank 7+
61
47
Open Page Rank 6+
91
72
Open Page Rank 5+
135
103
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
1,364
1,031
India
473
904
United Kingdom
413
621
Canada
422
537
Brazil
236
501
Australia
268
447
Germany
231
481
France
197
491
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, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.