phpBB vs punBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
phpBB · punBB · 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
1
Open Page Rank 7+
101
1
Open Page Rank 6+
162
3
Open Page Rank 5+
262
4
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
phpBB · punBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
1,630
24
United States
1,626
23
France
1,308
19
United Kingdom
1,151
16
Poland
1,112
16
Russia
1,067
36
Spain
905
15
Italy
872
11
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | punBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 600 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.