🆚 Community vs. Forum
- 📈 Community is slightly more popular than Forum.
- 🌎 Community is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Forum is more popular in Germany, France, and Russia.
Type
About
A community section is a website area designed to support interaction, collaboration, and communication between users around a service, interest, or brand.
In some cases it functions as a traditional 👨👩👧👦 Forum, while more advanced implementations may also include knowledge bases, events, questions and answers, and integrations with support or social features.
A forum section is a website area that enables users to create discussions, post messages, and participate in topic-based conversations with other users.
It typically organizes content into categories and threads, include notifications, search, and reputation systems, and is usually powered by forum software such as XenForo or vBulletin.
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Korea in the Standard Pages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Australia in the Standard Pages category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in New Zealand in the Standard Pages category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Canada in the Standard Pages category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Italy in the Standard Pages category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Poland in the Standard Pages category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Turkey in the Standard Pages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Latvia in the Standard Pages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Uzbekistan in the Standard Pages category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in France in the Standard Pages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
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 3,523,511 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.