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+
20
1
Open Page Rank 8+
191
22
Open Page Rank 7+
553
84
Open Page Rank 6+
875
207
Open Page Rank 5+
1,229
425
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
3,977
4,528
United Kingdom
2,549
2,550
Germany
2,399
2,321
Canada
2,233
2,365
India
2,917
1,471
France
2,205
1,690
Australia
1,760
1,731
Spain
1,801
1,419
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, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.