Discourse vs phpBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Discourse · phpBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
3
Open Page Rank 8+
194
31
Open Page Rank 7+
551
102
Open Page Rank 6+
864
167
Open Page Rank 5+
1,198
271
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Discourse · phpBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,528
1,695
Germany
2,079
1,698
United Kingdom
2,232
1,183
India
2,634
696
France
1,794
1,342
Canada
1,983
738
Brazil
1,806
666
Spain
1,566
883
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | phpBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
phpBB to Discourse
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| retrotech.ro | Jun 2026 |