Discourse vs NodeBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · NodeBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
1
Open Page Rank 8+
194
7
Open Page Rank 7+
551
24
Open Page Rank 6+
864
40
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
57
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · NodeBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
165
India
2,634
124
United Kingdom
2,232
92
Germany
2,079
103
Canada
1,983
85
France
1,794
94
Brazil
1,806
81
Indonesia
1,602
72
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | NodeBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 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.