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+
20
1
Open Page Rank 8+
191
7
Open Page Rank 7+
553
18
Open Page Rank 6+
875
40
Open Page Rank 5+
1,229
66
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
3,977
808
India
2,917
169
United Kingdom
2,549
192
Germany
2,399
200
Canada
2,233
239
Japan
1,641
813
France
2,205
140
Taiwan
1,059
1,105
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | Discuz! X |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 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, 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.