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
4
Open Page Rank 8+
21
30
Open Page Rank 7+
53
106
Open Page Rank 6+
115
182
Open Page Rank 5+
200
297
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
199
1,940
Germany
122
1,989
France
88
1,581
United Kingdom
95
1,317
Poland
56
1,271
Russia
46
1,175
Spain
74
992
Italy
68
984
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mastodon | phpBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.5 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.