Discourse vs FluxBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · FluxBB · 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
1
Open Page Rank 7+
542
3
Open Page Rank 6+
846
5
Open Page Rank 5+
1,169
6
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · FluxBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,525
21
India
2,610
10
United Kingdom
2,247
14
Germany
2,055
14
Canada
1,986
12
France
1,850
22
Brazil
1,772
10
Spain
1,656
12
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | FluxBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 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.