NodeBB vs vBulletin
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
NodeBB · vBulletin · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
0
Open Page Rank 8+
7
7
Open Page Rank 7+
24
37
Open Page Rank 6+
40
70
Open Page Rank 5+
60
131
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
NodeBB · vBulletin · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
183
1,547
Germany
115
1,011
United Kingdom
116
933
Canada
103
782
France
110
658
Netherlands
81
609
Russia
71
613
India
134
549
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | NodeBB | vBulletin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.