phpBB on new websites
Free open-source bulletin board software for running online discussion forums.
103 sites
102 found by StackScope, 1 via launch platforms
- StackScope Wider Web 102
- Product Hunt 1
phpBB appeared on about 37 new sites in the last 30 days.
These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
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37 new sites with phpBB first seen in the last 30 days.
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Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026. Chart starts at first detection.
The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without phpBB itself changing.
Coverage details
Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.
Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
What kind of sites use phpBB
25 sites with a known type, all time
Domain endings using phpBB
103 sites, all time
- .com 45.6%
- .org 11.7%
- .online 8.7%
- .fr 5.8%
- .net 5.8%
- .uk 5.8%
- .site 3.9%
Country
Country likely for 18 of 103 sites (17.5%), all time.
How we know
Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
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United Kingdom
33.3%
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France
27.8%
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Switzerland
5.6%
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Czechia
5.6%
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Germany
5.6%
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Spain
5.6%
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Sweden
5.6%
Community leaders
| Tool | % of sitesall time | % of categoryall time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
XenForo
|
<0.1% | 14.2% |
| #2 | – | Discourse | <0.1% | 11.0% |
| #3 | – |
Skool
|
<0.1% | 7.4% |
| #4 | ▼1 | Flarum | <0.1% | 6.1% |
| #5 | ▲4 | Discuz! | <0.1% | 6.0% |
| #6 | ▼1 |
phpBB
Current page
|
<0.1% | 5.9% |
Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Community tool. All 142 in Community →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
jQuery
|
91 | 6.2x |
LiteSpeed Web Server
|
31 | 4.5x |
Tools that turn up far more often on phpBB sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recent launches using phpBB
1 of the 103 sites using phpBB are product launches we list individually. The other 102 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts. How StackScope Discovery works
The StackScope API serves all 103 sites using phpBB, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.