phpBB vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
phpBB · XenForo · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
1
Open Page Rank 8+
31
23
Open Page Rank 7+
102
84
Open Page Rank 6+
167
204
Open Page Rank 5+
271
414
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
phpBB · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,695
3,918
Germany
1,698
1,970
United Kingdom
1,183
2,224
Canada
738
2,006
France
1,342
1,328
Russia
1,070
1,473
Poland
1,120
1,151
Spain
883
1,255
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 500 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.