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+
194
1
Open Page Rank 7+
551
3
Open Page Rank 6+
864
5
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
7
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
3,528
21
India
2,634
11
United Kingdom
2,232
13
Germany
2,079
13
Canada
1,983
14
France
1,794
23
Brazil
1,806
10
Indonesia
1,602
9
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | FluxBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 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.