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
4
Open Page Rank 7+
102
11
Open Page Rank 6+
167
22
Open Page Rank 5+
271
32
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
1,695
230
Germany
1,698
137
France
1,342
123
United Kingdom
1,183
167
Poland
1,120
99
Russia
1,070
75
Spain
883
117
Italy
870
115
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, 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.