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
1
Open Page Rank 8+
7
29
Open Page Rank 7+
19
80
Open Page Rank 6+
32
150
Open Page Rank 5+
57
225
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
350
1,902
United Kingdom
185
1,306
Germany
218
1,200
Russia
130
1,073
France
188
960
Canada
151
990
India
214
817
Poland
105
900
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Flarum | IPB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
IPB to Flarum
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ragnarevival.com | Jul 2025 |