Beehiiv vs Substack
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Beehiiv · Substack · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
2
Open Page Rank 8+
12
12
Open Page Rank 7+
61
57
Open Page Rank 6+
91
134
Open Page Rank 5+
135
226
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Beehiiv · Substack · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,364
2,503
India
473
731
United Kingdom
413
769
Canada
422
614
Australia
268
333
Germany
231
300
Brazil
236
284
Spain
203
294
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Beehiiv | Substack |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 500 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.