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+
193
23
Open Page Rank 7+
542
78
Open Page Rank 6+
846
189
Open Page Rank 5+
1,169
383
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
3,525
3,852
United Kingdom
2,247
2,163
Germany
2,055
1,886
Canada
1,986
1,944
India
2,610
1,281
France
1,850
1,297
Australia
1,527
1,430
Spain
1,656
1,268
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 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, 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.