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
23
Open Page Rank 7+
18
69
Open Page Rank 6+
30
130
Open Page Rank 5+
52
201
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
317
1,604
United Kingdom
179
1,081
Germany
182
1,006
Russia
125
965
Canada
132
820
France
157
773
India
198
725
Poland
91
760
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Flarum | IPB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 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, 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.