Discourse vs Pleroma
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · Pleroma · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
0
Open Page Rank 8+
194
0
Open Page Rank 7+
551
0
Open Page Rank 6+
864
0
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · Pleroma · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
3
India
2,634
1
United Kingdom
2,232
0
Germany
2,079
0
Canada
1,983
0
Brazil
1,806
1
France
1,794
0
Indonesia
1,602
2
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | Pleroma |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| 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.