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+
189
7
Open Page Rank 7+
541
23
Open Page Rank 6+
849
37
Open Page Rank 5+
1,179
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
3,525
164
India
2,610
121
United Kingdom
2,247
93
Germany
2,055
96
Canada
1,986
84
France
1,850
91
Brazil
1,772
79
Spain
1,656
77
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | NodeBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 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, 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.