IPB vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
IPB · XenForo · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
1
Open Page Rank 8+
23
23
Open Page Rank 7+
69
78
Open Page Rank 6+
130
189
Open Page Rank 5+
201
383
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
IPB · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,604
3,852
United Kingdom
1,081
2,163
Germany
1,006
1,886
Canada
820
1,944
Russia
965
1,471
France
773
1,297
Australia
585
1,430
India
725
1,281
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 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.