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+
23
7
Open Page Rank 7+
69
25
Open Page Rank 6+
130
39
Open Page Rank 5+
201
67
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
1,604
522
United Kingdom
1,081
296
Germany
1,006
343
Russia
965
275
Canada
820
178
France
773
204
Poland
760
213
India
725
188
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | Simple Machines Forum |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.