Is Ghost or phpBB more popular?

Ghost is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 537 use phpBB.

Does Ghost or phpBB have higher-authority sites?

Ghost sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, phpBB: 31).

Is Ghost or phpBB growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while phpBB went from 0.08% to 0.06%. Ghost is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Ghost and phpBB?

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

Where does this Ghost 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.

Ghost vs phpBB — Site Stats Database

Ghost 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	Ghost	phpBB
Websites	775	537
Market share	0.15%	0.10%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.04%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#39

Median DR	34	31

Average DR	35	34

Median keywords	997	798

Median referring domains	393	730

Median domain age	7 yrs	20 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	19 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	32,156

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	17,267,771

allbud.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords81,210
Referring Domains4,878
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,897,288
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost
blog.duolingo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords48,347
Referring Domains7,397
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,884,812
Traffic Trend
Technology
bestfreestreaming.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)6
Total Keywords6,973
Referring Domains252
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,284,080
Traffic Trend
Technology
alisoneroman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords21,747
Referring Domains2,228
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,183,351
Traffic Trend
Technology
roadrunner.travel
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords40,115
Referring Domains3,357
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)845,158
Traffic Trend
Technology
retrododo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords47,167
Referring Domains8,068
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)818,794
Traffic Trend
Technology
wheelchairtravel.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords7,654
Referring Domains2,838
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)446,858
Traffic Trend
Technology
gamingtrend.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords49,133
Referring Domains7,940
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)396,941
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.gratefulness.me
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords40,731
Referring Domains4,386
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)354,956
Traffic Trend
Technology
exploros.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords44,249
Referring Domains924
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)334,928
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
allbud.com	English	77	81,210	4,878	22 yrs	1,897,288		Ghost

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