Discuz! X vs NodeBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discuz! X · NodeBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
1
Open Page Rank 8+
7
7
Open Page Rank 7+
20
24
Open Page Rank 6+
39
40
Open Page Rank 5+
64
57
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 · NodeBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
China
890
45
Taiwan
884
49
United States
702
165
Hong Kong SAR China
798
53
Japan
671
73
Singapore
454
50
Malaysia
307
47
Canada
206
85
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discuz! X | NodeBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 25 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 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.