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+
7
22
Open Page Rank 7+
29
84
Open Page Rank 6+
44
207
Open Page Rank 5+
77
425
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
636
4,528
United Kingdom
343
2,550
Germany
420
2,321
Canada
216
2,365
Russia
309
1,664
France
258
1,690
Australia
156
1,731
India
221
1,471
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, 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.