🆚 NodeBB vs. phpBB
- 📈 phpBB is much more popular than NodeBB.
- 🌍 phpBB is more popular in all countries.
NodeBBType
About
NodeBB is an open-source forum software built with 
Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via 
WebSockets, multiple database backends such as Redis, 
MongoDB, and 
PostgreSQL, and a REST API.
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
Pricing
(50K pageviews) $20/month
(500K pageviews) $100/month
(2M pageviews) $250/month
(10M pageviews) $750/month
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
- 🥇 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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Internet Forum Software 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.
🗃️ 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.