IPB vs Simple Machines Forum
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
IPB · Simple Machines Forum · 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
7
Open Page Rank 7+
80
29
Open Page Rank 6+
150
44
Open Page Rank 5+
225
77
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
IPB · Simple Machines Forum · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,902
636
United Kingdom
1,306
343
Germany
1,200
420
Russia
1,073
309
France
960
258
Canada
990
216
Poland
900
256
Netherlands
823
224
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | Simple Machines Forum |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.2 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.