Flarum vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Flarum · XenForo · 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+
6
23
Open Page Rank 7+
18
84
Open Page Rank 6+
30
204
Open Page Rank 5+
54
414
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Flarum · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
321
3,918
United Kingdom
179
2,224
Germany
186
1,970
Canada
136
2,006
Australia
100
1,496
Russia
121
1,473
India
203
1,290
France
156
1,328
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Flarum | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 500 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.