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+
20
1
Open Page Rank 8+
191
29
Open Page Rank 7+
553
80
Open Page Rank 6+
875
150
Open Page Rank 5+
1,229
225
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
3,977
1,902
United Kingdom
2,549
1,306
India
2,917
817
Germany
2,399
1,200
Canada
2,233
990
France
2,205
960
Brazil
1,990
771
Netherlands
1,713
823
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | IPB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.