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+
20
4
Open Page Rank 8+
191
30
Open Page Rank 7+
553
106
Open Page Rank 6+
875
182
Open Page Rank 5+
1,229
297
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
3,977
1,940
Germany
2,399
1,989
United Kingdom
2,549
1,317
France
2,205
1,581
India
2,917
791
Canada
2,233
886
Spain
1,801
992
Italy
1,769
984
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, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.