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+
1
1
Open Page Rank 8+
29
22
Open Page Rank 7+
80
84
Open Page Rank 6+
150
207
Open Page Rank 5+
225
425
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
1,902
4,528
United Kingdom
1,306
2,550
Germany
1,200
2,321
Canada
990
2,365
Russia
1,073
1,664
France
960
1,690
Australia
714
1,731
India
817
1,471
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IPB | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 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, 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.