Do we know how many websites are using Discourse in a country?
Do you analyse that and publicise it?
Thank you!
AI-generated summary
The discussion explores how many websites use Discourse per country, with users debating the accuracy and availability of such data. Ed_S notes the difficulty in determining counts due to factors like server location, domain, and user base. volanar shares a trend report from BuiltWith showing 74 Discourse forums in Finland, which Jagster questions, suggesting 7.4 might be more accurate. volanar clarifies that the full list requires a paid subscription. merefield expresses surprise at the data, while volanar compares the subscription cost to launching a marketplace. Ed_S adds that server location doesn’t reflect user or operational location, as Jagster confirms using Frankfurt.
I’m going to guess: the question is, how many Discourse instances running in each country.
I think it’s a difficult question to answer: For example, I run one Discourse on a .com domain, and one on a .org domain. One is physically hosted in the USA, one in Germany. One has international membership, the other has a UK membership. In total there might be just 100 active users - but some instances have very much larger memberships!
Another question you might ask, is how many Discourse instances are using each language translation. Mine are both English language. I think there might be nearly 50 languages supported (but only 15 translations are 90% complete or better.)
74 discourse forums in Finland? I doubt that. 7,4 could be more accurate ![]()
There are links to all 74 sites, but you need to have a paid subscription
The subscription cost is equal to the cost of launching the marketplace ![]()
I think Hetzner has a Helsinki presence as an option. (Demonstrating that location of a server is only the location of a server.)
Exactly. I’m using Frankfurt.

