🆚 bbPress vs. PunBB
- 📈 bbPress is much more popular than PunBB.
- 🌍 bbPress is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ PunBB is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
bbPressType
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.
PunBB is a fast and lightweight 
PHP-based open source discussion board.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The bbPress Internet forum software is 94 times more popular than PunBB.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
bbPress is more popular than PunBB in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Canada
Russia
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States 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 Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
bbPress is more popular than PunBB in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Internet Services
Sports
Health
Entertainment
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Simple Machines Forum🗃️ 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.