phpBB vs Vanilla
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
phpBB · Vanilla · 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
3
Open Page Rank 7+
101
10
Open Page Rank 6+
162
20
Open Page Rank 5+
262
30
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
phpBB · Vanilla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,626
231
Germany
1,630
136
France
1,308
123
United Kingdom
1,151
163
Poland
1,112
95
Russia
1,067
73
Spain
905
117
Italy
872
116
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 700 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.