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
78
Open Page Rank 6+
30
189
Open Page Rank 5+
52
383
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
313
3,774
United Kingdom
169
2,078
Germany
183
1,845
Canada
130
1,851
Russia
122
1,450
Australia
96
1,360
France
167
1,231
India
199
1,185
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Flarum | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 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, Oct 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.