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+
189
24
Open Page Rank 7+
541
71
Open Page Rank 6+
849
132
Open Page Rank 5+
1,179
203
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
3,525
1,604
India
2,610
725
United Kingdom
2,247
1,081
Germany
2,055
1,006
Canada
1,986
820
France
1,850
773
Brazil
1,772
657
Spain
1,656
608
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | IPB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 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, 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.