Discourse vs Reddit
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · Reddit · 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+
193
1
Open Page Rank 7+
542
2
Open Page Rank 6+
846
3
Open Page Rank 5+
1,169
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 · Reddit · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,525
54
India
2,610
37
United Kingdom
2,247
30
Germany
2,055
24
Canada
1,986
28
France
1,850
20
Brazil
1,772
18
Spain
1,656
19
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1000 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.