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+
24
102
Open Page Rank 6+
40
167
Open Page Rank 5+
57
271
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
165
1,695
Germany
103
1,698
France
94
1,342
United Kingdom
92
1,183
Poland
69
1,120
Russia
63
1,070
Spain
78
883
Italy
76
870
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, 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.