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+
1
4
Open Page Rank 8+
29
30
Open Page Rank 7+
80
106
Open Page Rank 6+
150
182
Open Page Rank 5+
225
297
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
1,902
1,940
Germany
1,200
1,989
United Kingdom
1,306
1,317
France
960
1,581
Russia
1,073
1,175
Poland
900
1,271
Canada
990
886
Netherlands
823
979
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | phpBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 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, 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.
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 |