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+
1
0
Open Page Rank 8+
29
0
Open Page Rank 7+
80
0
Open Page Rank 6+
150
2
Open Page Rank 5+
225
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
1,902
27
United Kingdom
1,306
15
Germany
1,200
29
Russia
1,073
39
Canada
990
15
France
960
23
Poland
900
18
Netherlands
823
20
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | punBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 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.