vBulletin vs XenForo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
vBulletin · 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+
37
84
Open Page Rank 6+
70
207
Open Page Rank 5+
131
425
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
vBulletin · XenForo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,547
4,528
United Kingdom
933
2,550
Germany
1,011
2,321
Canada
782
2,365
France
658
1,690
Russia
613
1,664
Australia
515
1,731
Netherlands
609
1,437
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | vBulletin | XenForo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 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, 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
XenForo to vBulletin
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| pchelpforum.net | Sep 2025 |