Discourse vs Flarum
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · Flarum · 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+
194
6
Open Page Rank 7+
551
18
Open Page Rank 6+
864
30
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
54
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · Flarum · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
321
India
2,634
203
United Kingdom
2,232
179
Germany
2,079
186
Canada
1,983
136
France
1,794
156
Brazil
1,806
140
Indonesia
1,602
138
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | Flarum |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Flarum to Discourse
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| kkpans.com | Sep 2025 |