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+
0
22
Open Page Rank 7+
0
84
Open Page Rank 6+
2
207
Open Page Rank 5+
4
425
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
27
4,528
United Kingdom
15
2,550
Canada
15
2,365
Germany
29
2,321
Australia
11
1,731
France
23
1,690
Russia
39
1,664
India
14
1,471
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | punBB | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 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, 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.