Discourse vs WordPress

WordPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 269 use Discourse and 267,619 use WordPress.

Discourse sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Discourse: 48, WordPress: 26).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Discourse went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while WordPress went from 35% to 30%. Discourse is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Discourse and WordPress 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.