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+
194
2
Open Page Rank 7+
551
3
Open Page Rank 6+
864
5
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
6
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
3,528
55
India
2,634
34
United Kingdom
2,232
30
Germany
2,079
23
Canada
1,983
28
Brazil
1,806
18
France
1,794
19
Indonesia
1,602
22
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1100 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.