🆚 phpBB vs. PunBB
- 📈 phpBB is much more popular than PunBB.
- 🌍 phpBB is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ PunBB is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
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.
PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-based open source discussion board.
Headquarters
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #3
Internet Forum Software › Rank #15
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The phpBB Internet forum software is 49 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.
phpBB is more popular than PunBB in all countries.
United Kingdom
Germany
United States
Russia
France
Poland
Netherlands
Spain
Czech Republic
Italy
Awards
- 🥇 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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
phpBB is more popular than PunBB in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Recreation/Hobbies
Games
Entertainment
Sports
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Technical/Business Forums
Software/Hardware
Business
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.