Is phpBB or Squarespace more popular?

Squarespace is used by more websites in our catalog: 537 use phpBB and 19,898 use Squarespace.

Does phpBB or Squarespace have higher-authority sites?

phpBB sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (phpBB: 31, Squarespace: 19).

Is phpBB or Squarespace growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, phpBB went from 0.08% to 0.06% of all tracked sites, while Squarespace went from 2.0% to 2.3%. Squarespace is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both phpBB and Squarespace?

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

Where does this phpBB vs Squarespace 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.

phpBB vs Squarespace — Site Stats Database

phpBB vs Squarespace

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	phpBB	Squarespace
Websites	537	19,898
Market share	0.10%	3.9%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.19%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#39	#5

Median DR	31	19

Average DR	34	22

Median keywords	798	561

Median referring domains	730	149

Median domain age	20 yrs	10 yrs

Average domain age	19 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	32,156	20,958

Combined monthly traffic	17,267,771	417,015,137

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

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
realgm.com	English	70	244,764	15,452	25 yrs	2,956,660		phpBB

squarespace.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords1,147,898
Referring Domains1,352,006
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,906,214
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
hillspet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords206,722
Referring Domains21,021
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,886,872
Traffic Trend
Technology
noahlangphotography.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords28,156
Referring Domains884
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,838,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
pixar.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords25,185
Referring Domains25,736
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,138,006
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquarespace
chelseamarket.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords11,374
Referring Domains6,291
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,388,094
Traffic Trend
Technology
bookishwayfarer.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)19
Total Keywords10,518
Referring Domains147
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,351,646
Traffic Trend
Technology
mashupmath.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords51,645
Referring Domains2,099
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,276,104
Traffic Trend
Technology
pressedcafe.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords11,722
Referring Domains667
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,955,466
Traffic Trend
Technology
treelinereview.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords91,103
Referring Domains2,371
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,812,606
Traffic Trend
Technology
1992sharetea.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords12,862
Referring Domains1,572
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,550,991
Traffic Trend
Technology