Brightspot vs phpBB

phpBB is used by more websites in our catalog: 379 use Brightspot and 537 use phpBB.

Brightspot sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Brightspot: 67, phpBB: 31).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Brightspot went from 0.06% to 0.04% of all tracked sites, while phpBB went from 0.08% to 0.06%. Brightspot is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Brightspot and phpBB are mutually exclusive.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.