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+
39
30
Open Page Rank 5+
64
54
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
United States
702
321
China
890
109
Taiwan
884
97
Hong Kong SAR China
798
102
Japan
671
140
Singapore
454
98
Malaysia
307
87
Germany
178
186
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discuz! X | Flarum |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 25 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 900 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.