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+
189
31
Open Page Rank 7+
541
101
Open Page Rank 6+
849
162
Open Page Rank 5+
1,179
262
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
3,525
1,626
Germany
2,055
1,630
United Kingdom
2,247
1,151
India
2,610
674
France
1,850
1,308
Canada
1,986
723
Spain
1,656
905
Italy
1,574
872
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Discourse | phpBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 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, Sep 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 |