Discuz! X vs Flarum
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discuz! X · Flarum · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
0
Open Page Rank 8+
7
6
Open Page Rank 7+
20
18
Open Page Rank 6+
33
30
Open Page Rank 5+
55
52
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discuz! X · Flarum · share of sites in each country using one or the other
China
952
116
United States
664
313
Taiwan
816
96
Hong Kong SAR China
690
95
Japan
570
140
Singapore
412
93
Malaysia
304
90
India
156
199
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discuz! X | Flarum |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 25 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.