Websites Powered by Discourse
8,737 websites tracked using Discourse (Message boards) · discourse.org
Discourse is a message board or forum platform. Its official site is discourse.org. PoweredBy tracks the websites that use Discourse across the public web; the tracked counts, adoption trend, and site list on this page are updated from our ongoing crawl of the message boards ecosystem.
Usage trend
1K
2K
3K
4K
Apr 2018
May 2020
Sep 2022
Oct 2024
Oct 2026
Domains observed using Discourse in each month's HTTP Archive crawl,
Apr 2018 to Oct 2026 · peak 3,687 in Feb 2025. The tracked total above also
counts sites not re-crawled recently.
Core Web Vitals
LCP 1.7 s
INP 75 ms
CLS 0
TTFB 800 ms
Median site among 4,875 Discourse sites with Chrome UX data, p75 values, Sep 2026.
Top countries
United States
3,525
India
2,610
United Kingdom
2,247
Germany
2,055
Canada
1,986
France
1,850
Brazil
1,772
Spain
1,656
Sites using Discourse by audience country, Chrome UX Report.
Usage by industry
| Industry | Share | Websites |
|---|---|---|
| Games | 0.15% | 11 |
| Software and apps | 0.09% | 149 |
| Non-profit and religious | 0.06% | 6 |
| News and media | 0.03% | 15 |
| Education | 0.02% | 14 |
| Finance and insurance | 0.02% | 4 |
| Government | 0.01% | 1 |
| Blogs and publishing | 0.01% | 3 |
| Arts and entertainment | <0.01% | 5 |
| Retail | <0.01% | 34 |
| Sports and fitness | <0.01% | 1 |
| Legal | <0.01% | 1 |
Share of each industry's websites with a detected stack that use Discourse; industries come from what sites declare in their own structured data.
Top sites by authority
9+
6% · 21 of 372 sites
8+
3% · 193 of 7,677 sites
7+
1% · 542 of 45,712 sites
6+
<1% · 846 of 110,136 sites
5+
<1% · 1,169 of 246,751 sites
The share of the web's most authoritative domains, by Open Page Rank tier, seen running Discourse in recent crawls. Only 372 domains worldwide score 9 or higher.
Websites using Discourse
| # | Domain | Open Page RankOPR | Est. monthly visits (US)Visits (US) | Keywords | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | ddns.net | 7.98/10 | - | - | Jan 2026 |
| 202 | asciinema.org | 7.98/10 | 54 | 266 | Aug 2022 |
| 203 | bplaced.net | 7.98/10 | 2 | 6 | Aug 2018 |
| 204 | gravityforms.com | 7.98/10 | 10,700 | 5,533 | Feb 2020 |
| 205 | mews.com | 7.98/10 | 17,200 | 6,951 | Oct 2026 |
| 206 | digikey.com | 7.98/10 | 1,255,500 | 87,655 | Aug 2018 |
| 207 | godotengine.org | 7.98/10 | 16,500 | 12,699 | Jan 2024 |
| 208 | chef.io | 7.97/10 | 1,200 | 840 | Aug 2018 |
| 209 | strapi.io | 7.96/10 | 9,900 | 7,253 | Dec 2020 |
| 210 | influxdata.com | 7.95/10 | 14,300 | 6,378 | Aug 2018 |
| 211 | streamlit.io | 7.95/10 | 7,100 | 7,497 | Feb 2020 |
| 212 | julialang.org | 7.95/10 | 28,100 | 3,909 | Aug 2018 |
| 213 | nachi.org | 7.95/10 | 131,100 | 30,219 | Jul 2019 |
| 214 | casino.org | 7.95/10 | 169,700 | 76,293 | Dec 2024 |
| 215 | fast.ai | 7.94/10 | 2,800 | 2,321 | Aug 2018 |
| 216 | almalinux.org | 7.93/10 | 4,900 | 6,102 | Jun 2024 |
| 217 | uplandsoftware.com | 7.93/10 | 15,800 | 4,146 | Sep 2024 |
| 218 | solana.com | 7.93/10 | 2,900 | 3,469 | Jun 2020 |
| 219 | polygon.technology | 7.93/10 | 3,300 | 2,323 | Jan 2022 |
| 220 | dailymaverick.co.za | 7.92/10 | 11,100 | 16,541 | Sep 2025 |
| 221 | observablehq.com | 7.91/10 | 16,500 | 10,581 | May 2020 |
| 222 | rclone.org | 7.91/10 | 71,000 | 26,397 | Aug 2018 |
| 223 | deeplearning.ai | 7.91/10 | 81,300 | 15,166 | Jul 2021 |
| 224 | pinecone.io | 7.90/10 | 21,900 | 4,891 | May 2023 |
| 225 | ecmwf.int | 7.90/10 | 18,600 | 9,773 | Mar 2024 |
| 226 | linuxcontainers.org | 7.89/10 | 3,300 | 1,247 | Aug 2018 |
| 227 | ibict.br | 7.89/10 | - | - | May 2019 |
| 228 | bear.app | 7.88/10 | 15,500 | 7,124 | Dec 2022 |
| 229 | osgeo.org | 7.88/10 | 3,400 | 385 | Feb 2024 |
| 230 | formlabs.com | 7.86/10 | 156,900 | 14,455 | Aug 2018 |
| 231 | neo4j.com | 7.86/10 | 16,800 | 11,824 | Feb 2019 |
| 232 | processing.org | 7.86/10 | 39,800 | 12,280 | Aug 2018 |
| 233 | elm-lang.org | 7.85/10 | 1,200 | 69 | Aug 2018 |
| 234 | ens.domains | 7.85/10 | 2,700 | 1,031 | Jan 2022 |
| 235 | decentraland.org | 7.85/10 | 5,400 | 2,041 | Jun 2021 |
| 236 | libsdl.org | 7.84/10 | 990 | 529 | Aug 2018 |
| 237 | agcom.it | 7.84/10 | 32 | 312 | Sep 2024 |
| 238 | percona.com | 7.83/10 | 4,800 | 3,828 | Jan 2021 |
| 239 | rockylinux.org | 7.83/10 | 7,300 | 4,826 | Jun 2021 |
| 240 | posit.co | 7.83/10 | 48,700 | 10,791 | Apr 2024 |
| 241 | tapas.io | 7.83/10 | 91,000 | 11,721 | Jan 2019 |
| 242 | patient.info | 7.82/10 | 431,900 | 264,899 | Aug 2025 |
| 243 | endnote.com | 7.81/10 | 36,900 | 14,457 | Jun 2022 |
| 244 | discourse.group | 7.81/10 | - | - | May 2019 |
| 245 | companieshouse.gov.uk | 7.81/10 | - | - | Apr 2025 |
| 246 | firstinspires.org | 7.81/10 | 101,500 | 25,411 | Jan 2023 |
| 247 | desmos.com | 7.80/10 | 5,163,200 | 54,487 | Jun 2020 |
| 248 | plone.org | 7.80/10 | 34 | 95 | Aug 2018 |
| 249 | popupsmart.com | 7.79/10 | 5,300 | 5,027 | May 2024 |
| 250 | rocket.chat | 7.79/10 | 8,500 | 5,407 | Jan 2019 |
| 251 | stratechery.com | 7.79/10 | 9,800 | 11,154 | Dec 2022 |
| 252 | flightaware.com | 7.79/10 | 5,190,800 | 429,767 | Aug 2018 |
| 253 | mikrotik.com | 7.78/10 | 23,200 | 18,239 | Jul 2025 |
| 254 | ccleaner.com | 7.78/10 | 127,300 | 40,642 | Jan 2025 |
| 255 | michaeljfox.org | 7.78/10 | 32,900 | 8,156 | Jun 2025 |
| 256 | talkingpointsmemo.com | 7.77/10 | 12,600 | 8,564 | Aug 2018 |
| 257 | pega.com | 7.76/10 | 13,400 | 5,290 | Mar 2026 |
| 258 | polkadot.network | 7.76/10 | - | - | Jun 2021 |
| 259 | vtex.com | 7.75/10 | 830 | 497 | Jul 2021 |
| 260 | liferay.com | 7.75/10 | 6,100 | 1,236 | Oct 2025 |
| 261 | naa.gov.au | 7.75/10 | 22,300 | 10,169 | Mar 2023 |
| 262 | okfn.de | 7.75/10 | 5 | 11 | Aug 2022 |
| 263 | retool.com | 7.74/10 | 4,300 | 5,533 | Dec 2020 |
| 264 | documentfoundation.org | 7.74/10 | 9,100 | 27 | Nov 2023 |
| 265 | carersuk.org | 7.74/10 | 1,300 | 806 | Feb 2023 |
| 266 | usp.org | 7.74/10 | 32,300 | 11,738 | Aug 2022 |
| 267 | wowza.com | 7.73/10 | 18,300 | 2,976 | Dec 2024 |
| 268 | owncloud.org | 7.73/10 | - | - | Aug 2018 |
| 269 | metu.edu.tr | 7.73/10 | 2,300 | 243 | Sep 2019 |
| 270 | codemirror.net | 7.72/10 | 1,900 | 2,119 | Aug 2018 |
| 271 | vllm.ai | 7.72/10 | - | 2 | Aug 2025 |
| 272 | palantir.com | 7.72/10 | 676,100 | 25,907 | Jul 2024 |
| 273 | gatling.io | 7.71/10 | 460 | 386 | Aug 2022 |
| 274 | getdbt.com | 7.71/10 | 11,900 | 5,146 | May 2020 |
| 275 | mattermost.com | 7.71/10 | 6,200 | 3,459 | Apr 2022 |
| 276 | clubic.com | 7.71/10 | 8,900 | 9,296 | Jul 2021 |
| 277 | konghq.com | 7.70/10 | 13,800 | 3,504 | Feb 2019 |
| 278 | nodered.org | 7.70/10 | 17,900 | 12,042 | Jan 2019 |
| 279 | umbraco.com | 7.68/10 | 5,100 | 1,726 | Mar 2025 |
| 280 | asterisk.org | 7.68/10 | 35,700 | 1,239 | Aug 2018 |
| 281 | kitco.com | 7.68/10 | 423,400 | 27,109 | Sep 2024 |
| 282 | newsblur.com | 7.67/10 | 710 | 268 | Sep 2022 |
| 283 | z.cash | 7.66/10 | 550 | 271 | Aug 2018 |
| 284 | mariecurie.org.uk | 7.66/10 | 48,800 | 13,217 | Mar 2026 |
| 285 | shotcut.org | 7.66/10 | 9,600 | 3,892 | Aug 2018 |
| 286 | paraview.org | 7.65/10 | 1,700 | 723 | Jul 2019 |
| 287 | spip.net | 7.65/10 | 10 | 25 | Jun 2023 |
| 288 | mediatek.com | 7.65/10 | 7,900 | 5,032 | Aug 2018 |
| 289 | write.as | 7.65/10 | 440 | 979 | Dec 2021 |
| 290 | bokeh.org | 7.64/10 | 12,500 | 22 | Feb 2020 |
| 291 | nylas.com | 7.64/10 | 5,500 | 1,531 | Jul 2025 |
| 292 | core77.com | 7.64/10 | 27,400 | 23,037 | Sep 2022 |
| 293 | monzo.com | 7.63/10 | 5,400 | 7,425 | Aug 2018 |
| 294 | sandisk.com | 7.63/10 | 5,100 | 3,819 | Jul 2020 |
| 295 | temporal.io | 7.62/10 | 20,300 | 2,343 | Jun 2021 |
| 296 | literatureandlatte.com | 7.61/10 | 22,400 | 12,649 | Jul 2023 |
| 297 | qnap.com | 7.61/10 | 25,400 | 18,178 | Dec 2024 |
| 298 | fairphone.com | 7.61/10 | 5,000 | 318 | Aug 2018 |
| 299 | ipfs.tech | 7.60/10 | 140 | 272 | Sep 2022 |
| 300 | theresanaiforthat.com | 7.60/10 | 33,400 | 32,410 | Mar 2023 |
Open Page Rank is the domain's authority score (0 to 10, from the open web link graph); the list is ordered by it and covers sites seen in recent crawls. Visits and keywords are estimated US organic search figures.
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Columns: domain, Open Page Rank, first seen, last seen, industry (from the site's own structured data, blank when none).
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