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+
4
0
Open Page Rank 8+
30
6
Open Page Rank 7+
106
15
Open Page Rank 6+
182
26
Open Page Rank 5+
297
38
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
1,940
262
Germany
1,989
142
France
1,581
148
United Kingdom
1,317
182
Poland
1,271
114
Russia
1,175
93
Spain
992
131
Italy
984
134
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 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.