Mastodon vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Mastodon · XenForo · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
1
Open Page Rank 8+
18
23
Open Page Rank 7+
51
84
Open Page Rank 6+
113
204
Open Page Rank 5+
194
414
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Mastodon · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
171
3,918
United Kingdom
83
2,224
Germany
108
1,970
Canada
67
2,006
Australia
51
1,496
Russia
43
1,473
France
73
1,328
India
81
1,290
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mastodon | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.4 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.