Is Bubble or phpBB more popular?

phpBB is used by more websites in our catalog: 107 use Bubble and 537 use phpBB.

Does Bubble or phpBB have higher-authority sites?

phpBB sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Bubble: 27, phpBB: 31).

Is Bubble or phpBB growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Bubble went from 0.01% to 0.01% of all tracked sites, while phpBB went from 0.08% to 0.06%. Bubble is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Bubble and phpBB?

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

Where does this Bubble vs phpBB data come from?

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.

Bubble vs phpBB — Site Stats Database

Bubble vs phpBB

A side-by-side comparison of two content management systems, based on the 515,058 CMS sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Bubble	phpBB
Websites	107	537
Market share	0.02%	0.10%
Share of top 10K sites	0.00%	0.04%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#89	#39

Median DR	27	31

Average DR	31	34

Median keywords	1,076	798

Median referring domains	241	730

Median domain age	6 yrs	20 yrs

Average domain age	8 yrs	19 yrs

Average monthly traffic	22,634	32,156

Combined monthly traffic	2,421,877	17,267,771

loopreturns.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords8,350
Referring Domains7,060
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)609,834
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBubble
bubble.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords24,032
Referring Domains29,766
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)169,609
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBubble
mariposasedona.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords2,106
Referring Domains729
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)153,877
Traffic Trend
Technology
historytimelines.co
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)43
Total Keywords41,008
Referring Domains1,591
Domain Age3 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)134,632
Traffic Trend
Technology
cardhedger.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)27
Total Keywords4,829
Referring Domains266
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)129,627
Traffic Trend
Technology
questionai.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)27
Total Keywords1,563
Referring Domains594
Domain Age2 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)96,121
Traffic Trend
Technology
testrigor.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords11,377
Referring Domains3,589
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)71,409
Traffic Trend
Technology
piershare.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)29
Total Keywords11,492
Referring Domains187
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)69,073
Traffic Trend
Technology
threecolts.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords7,754
Referring Domains1,474
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)67,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
indoorplaygroundforkids.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords36,640
Referring Domains336
Domain Age1 yr
Traffic (Jun 2026)62,376
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
loopreturns.com	English	86	8,350	7,060	9 yrs	609,834		Bubble

realgm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords244,764
Referring Domains15,452
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,956,660
Traffic Trend
TechnologyphpBB
addons.mozilla.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords49,959
Referring Domains163,442
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,348,718
Traffic Trend
Technology
next-episode.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords157,283
Referring Domains11,904
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,327,966
Traffic Trend
Technology
home-barista.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords49,018
Referring Domains4,616
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)481,338
Traffic Trend
Technology
oregonhikers.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords36,741
Referring Domains4,062
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)431,980
Traffic Trend
Technology
soundonsound.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords75,020
Referring Domains15,236
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)415,793
Traffic Trend
Technology
14ers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords6,942
Referring Domains2,862
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)324,362
Traffic Trend
TechnologyphpBB
themeparkreview.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)47
Total Keywords26,890
Referring Domains7,073
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)298,341
Traffic Trend
Technology
rpgcodex.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)49
Total Keywords6,067
Referring Domains3,680
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)238,770
Traffic Trend
TechnologyphpBB
goodeggs.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords64,987
Referring Domains2,879
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)183,348
Traffic Trend
TechnologyphpBB