Is Joomla or phpBB more popular?

Joomla is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,891 use Joomla and 537 use phpBB.

Does Joomla or phpBB have higher-authority sites?

phpBB sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Joomla: 29, phpBB: 31).

Is Joomla or phpBB growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Joomla went from 0.33% to 0.33% of all tracked sites, while phpBB went from 0.08% to 0.06%. Joomla is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Joomla and phpBB?

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

Where does this Joomla 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.

Joomla vs phpBB — Site Stats Database

Joomla 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	Joomla	phpBB
Websites	2,891	537
Market share	0.56%	0.10%
Share of top 10K sites	0.08%	0.04%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#19	#39

Median DR	29	31

Average DR	31	34

Median keywords	665	798

Median referring domains	377	730

Median domain age	18 yrs	20 yrs

Average domain age	18 yrs	19 yrs

Average monthly traffic	20,880	32,156

Combined monthly traffic	60,363,288	17,267,771

musicca.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords57,982
Referring Domains3,824
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,910,422
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
greektraveltellers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords14,414
Referring Domains1,123
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,163,512
Traffic Trend
Technology
thousandtrails.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords66,268
Referring Domains3,775
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,969,701
Traffic Trend
Technology
uab.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords132,617
Referring Domains41,478
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,805,268
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
yourgoodwill.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords9,228
Referring Domains875
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,715,968
Traffic Trend
Technology
iwgia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords9,191
Referring Domains5,756
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,353,554
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
traviscountytx.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords60,134
Referring Domains6,971
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,129,558
Traffic Trend
Technology
dni.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords19,989
Referring Domains30,302
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,073,314
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
penn.museum
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords30,615
Referring Domains10,072
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)550,241
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
fun4firstcoastkids.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords17,262
Referring Domains689
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)515,252
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
musicca.com	English	64	57,982	3,824	11 yrs	2,910,422		Joomla

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