🆚 phpBB vs. WoltLab Suite
- 📈 phpBB is five times more popular than WoltLab Suite.
- 🌎 phpBB is more popular in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia.
- 🌍 WoltLab Suite is more popular in Germany.
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.
WoltLab Suite is a commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities.
Headquarters
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Potsdam, Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ❌
WoltLab Suite Forum€129.99
Branding Free€279.99
WoltLab Cloud
Starter (600K pageviews)€39.95/month
Professional (2.5M pageviews)€79.95/month
Business (5M pageviews)€249.95/month
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #3
Internet Forum Software › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The phpBB Internet forum software is 5 times more popular than WoltLab Suite.
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 Kingdom, the United States, and Russia, while WoltLab Suite is more popular in Germany.
Germany
United Kingdom
United States
Russia
France
Poland
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Czech Republic
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
phpBB is more popular than WoltLab Suite in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Recreation/Hobbies
Games
Sports
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Technical/Business Forums
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Software/Hardware
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.