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+
25
31
Open Page Rank 7+
73
102
Open Page Rank 6+
139
167
Open Page Rank 5+
214
271
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
1,637
1,695
Germany
1,052
1,698
United Kingdom
1,122
1,183
France
797
1,342
Russia
967
1,070
Poland
792
1,120
Canada
861
738
Netherlands
722
844
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, 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.
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 |