Discourse vs Mastodon
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · Mastodon · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
4
Open Page Rank 8+
194
18
Open Page Rank 7+
551
51
Open Page Rank 6+
864
113
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
194
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · Mastodon · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
171
India
2,634
81
United Kingdom
2,232
83
Germany
2,079
108
Canada
1,983
67
Brazil
1,806
63
France
1,794
73
Indonesia
1,602
56
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 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.