⚡ Internet Forum Software in Italy

Internet forums, also known as message boards or bulletin boards, are online discussion platforms that allow users to start discussions, post replies, and interact in an organized, threaded format.

Italy is a Southern European country with a population of around 59 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.3% of websites from Italy.

Statistics based on 88K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top Internet forum software in Italy in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is bbPress, which dominates the market with a substantial 50.8% share.
It is followed by phpBB with 19.9% and Invision Community with 8.7%.

bbPress 50.8%
phpBB 19.9%
Invision Community 8.7%
vBulletin 7.1%
XenForo 6.4%
Simple Machines Forum 3.2%
Discourse 1.3%
MyBB 1.3%
Flarum 0.6%
WoltLab Suite 0.3%
Khoros Communities 0.3%
Other 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that is more popular in Italy than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. phpBB ^(-1)
3. Invision Community ^(-1)
4. vBulletin ^(-1)
6. Simple Machines Forum ^(-1)
8. MyBB ^(-2)
9. Flarum ^(-4)
11. Khoros Communities ^(-1)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 11 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Italy, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	50.8%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	19.9%
3	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	8.7%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	7.1%
5	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	6.4%
6	Simple Machines Forum Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Open-source PHP forum software used to host and manage online community discussion boards with a SQL database backend. FreeOpen source	3.2%
7	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	1.3%
8	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.3%
9	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	0.6%
10	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	0.3%
11	Khoros Communities Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise-grade community management platform that enables organizations to build, manage, and scale branded online communities. $100,000+/year	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Internet Forum Software in other countries

🗃️ 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 88,883 websites from Italy.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.