Mastodon vs phpBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Mastodon · phpBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
3
Open Page Rank 8+
18
31
Open Page Rank 7+
53
101
Open Page Rank 6+
114
162
Open Page Rank 5+
194
262
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Mastodon · phpBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
172
1,626
Germany
120
1,630
France
78
1,308
United Kingdom
88
1,151
Poland
56
1,112
Russia
45
1,067
Spain
69
905
Italy
63
872
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mastodon | phpBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.