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+
4
1
Open Page Rank 8+
30
22
Open Page Rank 7+
106
84
Open Page Rank 6+
182
207
Open Page Rank 5+
297
425
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
1,940
4,528
Germany
1,989
2,321
United Kingdom
1,317
2,550
France
1,581
1,690
Canada
886
2,365
Russia
1,175
1,664
Poland
1,271
1,319
Netherlands
979
1,437
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, 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.