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+
6
23
Open Page Rank 7+
30
84
Open Page Rank 6+
58
204
Open Page Rank 5+
111
414
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
1,348
3,918
United Kingdom
802
2,224
Germany
838
1,970
Canada
668
2,006
Russia
529
1,473
Australia
461
1,496
France
519
1,328
India
477
1,290
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, 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.
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 |