Vanilla vs vBulletin
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Vanilla · vBulletin · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 8+
6
7
Open Page Rank 7+
15
37
Open Page Rank 6+
26
70
Open Page Rank 5+
38
131
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Vanilla · vBulletin · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
262
1,547
Germany
142
1,011
United Kingdom
182
933
Canada
159
782
France
148
658
Netherlands
128
609
India
176
549
Russia
93
613
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Vanilla | vBulletin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.