Is Discourse or MediaWiki more popular?

MediaWiki is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 905 use MediaWiki.

Does Discourse or MediaWiki have higher-authority sites?

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

Is Discourse or MediaWiki growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while MediaWiki went from 0.13% to 0.10%. Discourse is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Discourse and MediaWiki?

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

Where does this Discourse vs MediaWiki 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 MediaWiki — Site Stats Database

Discourse vs MediaWiki

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	MediaWiki
Websites	269	905
Market share	0.05%	0.18%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.41%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#69	#30

Median DR	48	52

Average DR	50	54

Median keywords	3,595	1,828

Median referring domains	1,086	1,096

Median domain age	13 yrs	17 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	16 yrs

Average monthly traffic	79,622	25,263,997

Combined monthly traffic	21,418,355	22,863,917,419

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

wikipedia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords61,690,521
Referring Domains6,594,435
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,208,499,330
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMediaWiki
wiktionary.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords3,062,929
Referring Domains213,267
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)104,118,446
Traffic Trend
Technology
wikihow.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords5,580,639
Referring Domains404,808
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)43,976,309
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMediaWiki
wikimedia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords2,379,245
Referring Domains966,084
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,185,929
Traffic Trend
Technology
minecraft.wiki
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords247,787
Referring Domains6,899
Domain Age2 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,965,443
Traffic Trend
Technology
miraheze.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords717,682
Referring Domains27,301
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,013,956
Traffic Trend
Technology
wikivoyage.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords643,751
Referring Domains23,679
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,794,002
Traffic Trend
Technology
runescape.wiki
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords207,329
Referring Domains13,226
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,038,581
Traffic Trend
Technology
mariowiki.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords122,527
Referring Domains13,105
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,306,334
Traffic Trend
Technology
stardewvalleywiki.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords169,976
Referring Domains8,117
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,602,509
Traffic Trend
Technology