🆚 Discuz! vs. phpBB
- 📈 phpBB is four times more popular than Discuz!.
- 🌎 phpBB is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Discuz! is a Chinese Internet forum software written in 
PHP.
phpBB is an open-source forum software written in PHP.
It provides a flat topic and post structure with hierarchical sub-forums, user groups and permissions management, multiple attachments per post, full-text search, multilingual support across 50+ languages, and access to over 450 extensions and 280 themes in its official customization database.
Headquarters
Hefei, China
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Enterprise Edition18,800+ RMB
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #8
Internet Forum Software › Rank #3
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The phpBB Internet forum software is 4 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.
phpBB is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
China
Russia
France
Poland
Netherlands
Spain
Hong Kong
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
phpBB is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, recreation and hobbies, and entertainment, while Discuz! is more commonly used on portal sites and pornography sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Recreation/Hobbies
Entertainment
Technical/Business Forums
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Portal Sites
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,524,018 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.