Vanilla vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Vanilla · 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+
3
23
Open Page Rank 7+
9
78
Open Page Rank 6+
19
189
Open Page Rank 5+
28
383
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Vanilla · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
231
3,852
United Kingdom
163
2,163
Canada
138
1,944
Germany
136
1,886
Australia
118
1,430
Russia
73
1,471
India
156
1,281
France
123
1,297
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Vanilla | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.