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+
194
7
Open Page Rank 7+
551
20
Open Page Rank 6+
864
39
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
64
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
3,528
702
India
2,634
148
United Kingdom
2,232
169
Germany
2,079
178
Canada
1,983
206
Japan
1,403
671
Brazil
1,806
124
France
1,794
131
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, 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.