⚡ Internet Forum Software in New Zealand

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.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

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

Statistics based on 14K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is bbPress with an impressive share of 43.9%, followed by phpBB with 22% and Invision Community with 12.2%.

bbPress 43.9%
phpBB 22%
Invision Community 12.2%
vBulletin 7.3%
XenForo 4.9%
Simple Machines Forum 2.4%
Discourse 2.4%
Discuz! 2.4%
MyBB 2.4%
Other 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that is more popular in New Zealand 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)
9. MyBB ^(-1)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 9 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from New Zealand, 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	43.9%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	22%
3	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	12.2%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	7.3%
5	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	4.9%
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	2.4%
7	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	2.4%
8	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	2.4%
9	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	2.4%

👉 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 14,208 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on April 10, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.