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+
2
0
Open Page Rank 8+
25
6
Open Page Rank 7+
73
26
Open Page Rank 6+
139
41
Open Page Rank 5+
214
71
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
1,637
541
United Kingdom
1,122
302
Germany
1,052
365
Russia
967
283
Canada
861
187
France
797
219
Poland
792
211
India
726
186
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | Simple Machines Forum |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 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, 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.