Flarum vs IPB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Flarum · IPB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
2
Open Page Rank 8+
6
25
Open Page Rank 7+
18
73
Open Page Rank 6+
30
139
Open Page Rank 5+
54
214
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Flarum · IPB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
321
1,637
United Kingdom
179
1,122
Germany
186
1,052
Russia
121
967
Canada
136
861
France
156
797
India
203
726
Poland
102
792
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Flarum | IPB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 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.