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+
18
24
Open Page Rank 6+
40
40
Open Page Rank 5+
66
60
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
Taiwan
1,105
55
Hong Kong SAR China
990
57
United States
808
183
Japan
813
82
China
798
36
Singapore
551
60
Malaysia
354
57
Canada
239
103
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, 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.