phpBB vs Pleroma
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
phpBB · Pleroma · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
0
Open Page Rank 8+
31
0
Open Page Rank 7+
102
0
Open Page Rank 6+
167
0
Open Page Rank 5+
271
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
phpBB · Pleroma · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
1,698
0
United States
1,695
3
France
1,342
0
United Kingdom
1,183
0
Poland
1,120
0
Russia
1,070
1
Spain
883
1
Italy
870
2
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | Pleroma |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 600 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.