IPB vs phpBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
IPB · phpBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
3
Open Page Rank 8+
24
31
Open Page Rank 7+
71
101
Open Page Rank 6+
132
162
Open Page Rank 5+
203
262
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
IPB · phpBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,604
1,626
Germany
1,006
1,630
United Kingdom
1,081
1,151
France
773
1,308
Russia
965
1,067
Poland
760
1,112
Canada
820
723
Netherlands
699
825
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | phpBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
phpBB to IPB
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| nfow.pl | Oct 2025 |