Discourse vs Discuz! X
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · Discuz! X · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
1
Open Page Rank 8+
193
7
Open Page Rank 7+
542
20
Open Page Rank 6+
846
33
Open Page Rank 5+
1,169
55
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · Discuz! X · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,525
667
India
2,610
156
United Kingdom
2,247
167
Germany
2,055
162
Canada
1,986
203
France
1,850
129
Japan
1,393
567
Brazil
1,772
127
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | Discuz! X |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 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.