Discourse vs ElkArte
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · ElkArte · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
0
Open Page Rank 8+
193
0
Open Page Rank 7+
542
0
Open Page Rank 6+
846
1
Open Page Rank 5+
1,169
1
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · ElkArte · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,525
6
India
2,610
2
United Kingdom
2,247
1
Germany
2,055
3
Canada
1,986
2
France
1,850
3
Brazil
1,772
1
Spain
1,656
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | ElkArte |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 12 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 550 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.