Discourse vs punBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · punBB · 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
1
Open Page Rank 7+
551
1
Open Page Rank 6+
864
3
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
4
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · punBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
23
India
2,634
14
United Kingdom
2,232
15
Germany
2,079
23
Canada
1,983
12
Brazil
1,806
13
France
1,794
19
Indonesia
1,602
12
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | punBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 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.