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+
3
3
Open Page Rank 8+
10
14
Open Page Rank 7+
57
60
Open Page Rank 6+
88
137
Open Page Rank 5+
134
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
1,378
2,725
India
542
805
United Kingdom
453
862
Canada
463
669
Australia
297
369
Germany
251
332
Brazil
255
314
Spain
223
336
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Beehiiv | Substack |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 500 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.