IPB vs punBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
IPB · punBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
0
Open Page Rank 8+
25
1
Open Page Rank 7+
73
1
Open Page Rank 6+
139
3
Open Page Rank 5+
214
4
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
IPB · punBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,637
23
United Kingdom
1,122
15
Germany
1,052
23
Russia
967
35
Canada
861
12
France
797
19
Poland
792
17
Netherlands
722
20
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | punBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 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.