Discourse vs Gatsby

Gatsby is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 1,636 use Gatsby.

Gatsby sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Discourse: 48, Gatsby: 52).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Gatsby went from 0.24% to 0.19%. Discourse is gaining ground faster in our index.

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

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.