As of October 9, 2026, phpBB is used by 12,292 websites in the TechLeads index: 20.5% of all Message boards detections, the 1st most-used of 33 Message boards technologies.
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<a href="https://techleads.fyi/technology/phpbb/market-share">phpBB market share (TechLeads data)</a>Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all Message boards detections.
| # | Technology | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | phpBB | 12,292 | 20.5% |
| 2 | XenForo | 9,774 | 16.3% |
| 3 | Mattermost | 9,328 | 15.6% |
| 4 | Discourse | 4,856 | 8.1% |
| 5 | IPB | 4,309 | 7.2% |
| 6 | Discuz! X | 4,110 | 6.9% |
| 7 | Simple Machines Forum | 3,655 | 6.1% |
In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, phpBB was detected on 23,203 pages in September 2026, down 29.1% from a year earlier (peak: 52,604). HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.
Same month, other Message Boards technologies in HTTP Archive: XenForo 23,992, Discourse 12,735, IPB 10,747, Discuz! X 7,376, SMF 6,834.
Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.
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TechLeads scans public websites and detects phpBB from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is phpBB's website count divided by the website counts of all Message boards technologies we track; a site using two Message boards tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 9, 2026 and update daily.
| 8 | vBulletin | 3,373 | 5.6% |
| 9 | Asgaros Forum | 2,286 | 3.8% |
| 10 | MyBB | 1,518 | 2.5% |
| 11 | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 1,077 | 1.8% |
| 12 | Flarum | 766 | 1.3% |
| 13 | Mastodon | 617 | 1.0% |
| 14 | NodeBB | 428 | 0.71% |
| 15 | PeerTube | 378 | 0.63% |
| 16 | Vanilla | 263 | 0.44% |
| 17 | phpwind | 155 | 0.26% |
| 18 | Misskey | 155 | 0.26% |
| 19 | punBB | 95 | 0.16% |
| 20 | PeerBoard | 84 | 0.14% |
| 21 | 82 | 0.14% |
Rows link to each competitor's market share page where one exists. The table lists the 21 most-used technologies; ranks are by website count.