Discourse vs IPB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · IPB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
2
Open Page Rank 8+
194
25
Open Page Rank 7+
551
73
Open Page Rank 6+
864
139
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
214
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · IPB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
1,637
India
2,634
726
United Kingdom
2,232
1,122
Germany
2,079
1,052
Canada
1,983
861
France
1,794
797
Brazil
1,806
650
Australia
1,591
608
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | IPB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 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.