Discourse vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · XenForo · 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+
194
23
Open Page Rank 7+
551
84
Open Page Rank 6+
864
204
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
414
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
3,918
United Kingdom
2,232
2,224
Germany
2,079
1,970
Canada
1,983
2,006
India
2,634
1,290
France
1,794
1,328
Australia
1,591
1,496
Spain
1,566
1,255
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 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.