XenForo vs YaBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
XenForo · YaBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
0
Open Page Rank 8+
23
0
Open Page Rank 7+
79
0
Open Page Rank 6+
196
0
Open Page Rank 5+
395
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
XenForo · YaBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,852
8
United Kingdom
2,163
2
Canada
1,944
0
Germany
1,886
4
Russia
1,471
3
Australia
1,430
1
France
1,297
0
India
1,281
2
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | XenForo | YaBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 137 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 750 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.