🆚 bbPress vs. Discuz!
- 📈 bbPress is much more popular than Discuz!.
- 🌎 bbPress is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
bbPress is a free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites.
It offers simple forum setup, integration with WordPress user accounts, support for subscriptions, tags, search, and shortcodes, and is extensible through additional plugins.
Discuz! is a Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Hefei, China
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ✔️
Enterprise Edition 18,800+ CNY
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The bbPress Internet forum software is 7 times more popular than Discuz!.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
bbPress is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
United States
China
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Canada
Australia
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
bbPress is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising, while Discuz! is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Internet Services
Health
Sports
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,653,460 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
Discuz!

