punBB vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
punBB · XenForo · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
1
Open Page Rank 8+
1
23
Open Page Rank 7+
1
84
Open Page Rank 6+
3
204
Open Page Rank 5+
4
414
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
punBB · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
23
3,918
United Kingdom
15
2,224
Canada
12
2,006
Germany
23
1,970
Russia
35
1,473
Australia
9
1,496
France
19
1,328
India
14
1,290
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | punBB | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.