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+
21
22
Open Page Rank 7+
53
84
Open Page Rank 6+
115
207
Open Page Rank 5+
200
425
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
199
4,528
United Kingdom
95
2,550
Canada
82
2,365
Germany
122
2,321
Australia
58
1,731
France
88
1,690
Russia
46
1,664
India
91
1,471
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mastodon | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.5 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 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.