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+
10
13
Open Page Rank 7+
56
54
Open Page Rank 6+
87
128
Open Page Rank 5+
133
221
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
1,323
2,486
India
474
736
United Kingdom
408
799
Canada
424
611
Australia
266
362
Brazil
245
290
Germany
224
306
Spain
193
282
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 | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 500 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.