LiveJournal vs Substack
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
LiveJournal · Substack · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
2
Open Page Rank 8+
1
13
Open Page Rank 7+
1
54
Open Page Rank 6+
1
128
Open Page Rank 5+
1
221
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
LiveJournal · Substack · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2
2,486
United Kingdom
2
799
India
2
736
Canada
2
611
Australia
2
362
Germany
2
306
Brazil
2
290
Spain
2
282
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | LiveJournal | Substack |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.13 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1150 ms | 500 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.