Is Drupal or phpBB more popular?

Drupal is used by more websites in our catalog: 12,040 use Drupal and 537 use phpBB.

Does Drupal or phpBB have higher-authority sites?

Drupal sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Drupal: 59, phpBB: 31).

Is Drupal or phpBB growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Drupal went from 1.7% to 1.4% of all tracked sites, while phpBB went from 0.08% to 0.06%. phpBB is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Drupal and phpBB?

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

Where does this Drupal 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.

Drupal vs phpBB — Site Stats Database

Drupal 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	Drupal	phpBB
Websites	12,040	537
Market share	2.3%	0.10%
Share of top 10K sites	5.3%	0.04%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#7	#39

Median DR	59	31

Average DR	54	34

Median keywords	1,775	798

Median referring domains	1,669	730

Median domain age	23 yrs	20 yrs

Average domain age	21 yrs	19 yrs

Average monthly traffic	316,310	32,156

Combined monthly traffic	3,808,378,350	17,267,771

nih.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords8,823,555
Referring Domains1,431,267
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)449,766,532
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
worldometers.info
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords472,275
Referring Domains82,483
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)113,278,446
Traffic Trend
Technology
irs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords973,833
Referring Domains280,852
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)75,413,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
ny.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,725,638
Referring Domains197,908
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)73,119,082
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
usa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords733,178
Referring Domains140,078
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)68,698,972
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
europa.eu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords759,110
Referring Domains2,213,654
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)64,108,914
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
almanac.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords932,777
Referring Domains73,599
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)63,656,636
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
ncaa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords450,724
Referring Domains61,708
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)38,619,244
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
usgs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords678,250
Referring Domains186,469
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)37,752,864
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal
wa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,323,378
Referring Domains154,980
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,128,393
Traffic Trend
TechnologyDrupal

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nih.gov	English	95	8,823,555	1,431,267	28 yrs	449,766,532		Drupal

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