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+
25
23
Open Page Rank 7+
73
84
Open Page Rank 6+
139
204
Open Page Rank 5+
214
414
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
1,637
3,918
United Kingdom
1,122
2,224
Germany
1,052
1,970
Canada
861
2,006
Russia
967
1,473
France
797
1,328
Australia
608
1,496
India
726
1,290
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, 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.