Simple Machines Forum vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Simple Machines Forum · 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+
6
23
Open Page Rank 7+
26
84
Open Page Rank 6+
41
204
Open Page Rank 5+
71
414
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Simple Machines Forum · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
541
3,918
United Kingdom
302
2,224
Germany
365
1,970
Canada
187
2,006
Russia
283
1,473
Australia
133
1,496
France
219
1,328
India
186
1,290
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Simple Machines Forum | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 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.