punBB vs vBulletin
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
punBB · vBulletin · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 8+
0
7
Open Page Rank 7+
0
37
Open Page Rank 6+
2
70
Open Page Rank 5+
4
131
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
punBB · vBulletin · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
27
1,547
Germany
29
1,011
United Kingdom
15
933
Canada
15
782
France
23
658
Russia
39
613
Netherlands
20
609
Italy
15
571
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | punBB | vBulletin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.