Is Discourse or Finalsite more popular?

Finalsite is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 701 use Finalsite.

Does Discourse or Finalsite have higher-authority sites?

Discourse sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Discourse: 48, Finalsite: 41).

Is Discourse or Finalsite growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Finalsite went from 0.10% to 0.08%. Discourse is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Discourse and Finalsite?

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

Where does this Discourse vs Finalsite 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 Finalsite — Site Stats Database

Discourse vs Finalsite

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	Finalsite
Websites	269	701
Market share	0.05%	0.14%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.01%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#69	#33

Median DR	48	41

Average DR	50	41

Median keywords	3,595	1,521

Median referring domains	1,086	908

Median domain age	13 yrs	24 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	22 yrs

Average monthly traffic	79,622	64,178

Combined monthly traffic	21,418,355	44,988,806

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

browardschools.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords30,411
Referring Domains9,327
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,072,407
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
cfisd.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords15,242
Referring Domains4,432
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)766,657
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
pcsb.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords21,962
Referring Domains5,097
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)752,849
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
cmsk12.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords19,809
Referring Domains3,584
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)746,797
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
houstonisd.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords20,296
Referring Domains14,902
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)733,144
Traffic Trend
Technology
palmbeachschools.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords22,241
Referring Domains5,291
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)695,828
Traffic Trend
Technology
jeffcopublicschools.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords14,990
Referring Domains3,198
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)692,036
Traffic Trend
Technology
ocfsd.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)29
Total Keywords1,685
Referring Domains556
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)652,711
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
vcsedu.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)55
Total Keywords8,967
Referring Domains2,479
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)558,356
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite
wcpss.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords14,362
Referring Domains7,628
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)507,023
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFinalsite