NodeBB vs phpBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
NodeBB · phpBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
3
Open Page Rank 8+
7
31
Open Page Rank 7+
23
101
Open Page Rank 6+
37
162
Open Page Rank 5+
57
262
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
NodeBB · phpBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
164
1,626
Germany
96
1,630
France
91
1,308
United Kingdom
93
1,151
Poland
70
1,112
Russia
63
1,067
Spain
77
905
Italy
74
872
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | NodeBB | phpBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.