Is Discourse or DNN more popular?

DNN is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 2,281 use DNN.

Does Discourse or DNN have higher-authority sites?

Discourse sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Discourse: 48, DNN: 2).

Is Discourse or DNN growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while DNN went from 0.09% to 0.26%. DNN is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Discourse and DNN?

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Discourse and DNN are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Discourse vs DNN data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Discourse vs DNN — Site Stats Database

Discourse vs DNN

A side-by-side comparison of two content management systems, based on the 515,058 CMS sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Discourse	DNN
Websites	269	2,281
Market share	0.05%	0.44%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.06%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#69	#21

Median DR	48	2

Average DR	50	12

Median keywords	3,595	351

Median referring domains	1,086	76

Median domain age	13 yrs	16 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	16 yrs

Average monthly traffic	79,622	23,777

Combined monthly traffic	21,418,355	54,235,042

community.spiceworks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords465,342
Referring Domains14,030
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,262,143
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDiscourse
boards.straightdope.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords424,843
Referring Domains10,457
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,665,970
Traffic Trend
Technology
talk.collegeconfidential.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords320,981
Referring Domains5,129
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,188,111
Traffic Trend
Technology
devforum.roblox.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords53,918
Referring Domains13,212
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,055,850
Traffic Trend
Technology
hungryonion.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)37
Total Keywords117,123
Referring Domains3,109
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)927,939
Traffic Trend
Technology
community.cartalk.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords179,057
Referring Domains2,154
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)690,215
Traffic Trend
Technology
growingfruit.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords81,071
Referring Domains1,453
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)631,018
Traffic Trend
Technology
t-nation.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords165,670
Referring Domains12,051
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)519,271
Traffic Trend
Technology
eyefi.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords21,811
Referring Domains2,398
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)468,464
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDiscourse
elitefourum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords42,741
Referring Domains1,332
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)456,968
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
community.spiceworks.com	English	87	465,342	14,030	28 yrs	2,262,143		Discourse

missouribotanicalgarden.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords208,151
Referring Domains17,942
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,157,778
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN
columbusga.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords27,886
Referring Domains3,023
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,616,858
Traffic Trend
Technology
wildlife.ca.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords90,364
Referring Domains12,230
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,139,887
Traffic Trend
Technology
socialworkers.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords47,656
Referring Domains12,447
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,341,559
Traffic Trend
Technology
harriscountytx.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords54,769
Referring Domains9,524
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,191,893
Traffic Trend
Technology
ocfl.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords45,542
Referring Domains5,199
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,111,696
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN
aacnnursing.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords26,307
Referring Domains10,152
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)832,069
Traffic Trend
Technology
orangecountyfl.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords40,767
Referring Domains6,346
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)803,221
Traffic Trend
Technology
hctx.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords36,755
Referring Domains4,954
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)768,923
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN
occc.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords4,612
Referring Domains2,712
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)740,222
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDNN