Discuz! X vs Simple Machines Forum
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discuz! X · Simple Machines Forum · 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
7
Open Page Rank 7+
18
29
Open Page Rank 6+
40
44
Open Page Rank 5+
66
77
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 · Simple Machines Forum · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
808
636
Taiwan
1,105
50
Hong Kong SAR China
990
41
Japan
813
102
China
798
20
Germany
200
420
Singapore
551
68
United Kingdom
192
343
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discuz! X | Simple Machines Forum |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 25 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.