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+
7
22
Open Page Rank 7+
19
84
Open Page Rank 6+
32
207
Open Page Rank 5+
57
425
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
350
4,528
United Kingdom
185
2,550
Germany
218
2,321
Canada
151
2,365
France
188
1,690
Australia
105
1,731
Russia
130
1,664
India
214
1,471
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, 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.