Is Discourse or GitHub Pages more popular?

GitHub Pages is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 505 use GitHub Pages.

Does Discourse or GitHub Pages have higher-authority sites?

GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Discourse: 48, GitHub Pages: 94).

Is Discourse or GitHub Pages growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while GitHub Pages went from 0.05% to 0.06%. GitHub Pages is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Discourse and GitHub Pages?

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

Where does this Discourse vs GitHub Pages 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 GitHub Pages — Site Stats Database

Discourse vs GitHub Pages

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	GitHub Pages
Websites	269	505
Market share	0.05%	0.10%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.01%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#69	#41

Median DR	48	94

Average DR	50	94

Median keywords	3,595	333

Median referring domains	1,086	167

Median domain age	13 yrs	13 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	13 yrs

Average monthly traffic	79,622	17,746

Combined monthly traffic	21,418,355	8,961,780

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

cs231n.github.io
LanguageHungarian
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords457
Referring Domains3,623
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,918,719
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
doodlecricket.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords2,549
Referring Domains871
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)591,885
Traffic Trend
Technology
classroomgame.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords1,226
Referring Domains0
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)500,460
Traffic Trend
Technology
r-roms.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords8,869
Referring Domains692
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)370,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
geometry-dash-unbanned.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords343
Referring Domains93
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)268,188
Traffic Trend
Technology
genizymath.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords1,426
Referring Domains4
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,761
Traffic Trend
Technology
thepizzaedition-games.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords430
Referring Domains2
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)165,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
emn178.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords4,165
Referring Domains2,387
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)140,295
Traffic Trend
Technology
powerlanguage-wordle.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords449
Referring Domains30
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
geometry-dashworld.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords270
Referring Domains129
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)123,973
Traffic Trend
Technology