phpBB vs vBulletin
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
phpBB · vBulletin · 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
7
Open Page Rank 7+
106
37
Open Page Rank 6+
182
70
Open Page Rank 5+
297
131
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
phpBB · vBulletin · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,940
1,547
Germany
1,989
1,011
United Kingdom
1,317
933
France
1,581
658
Poland
1,271
530
Russia
1,175
613
Canada
886
782
Netherlands
979
609
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | vBulletin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 1.4 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.