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Usage statistics and market shares of community platforms

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This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various community platforms. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys. Our reports are updated daily.

How to read the diagram:
99.5% of the websites use none of the community platforms that we monitor.
bbPress is used by 0.1% of all the websites, that is a community platform market share of 21.5%.

None

99.5%

bbPress

0.1%

21.5%

phpBB

0.1%

13.1%

XenForo

0.1%

10.6%

BuddyPress

less than 0.1%

10.2%

wpForo

less than 0.1%

5.6%

IPS Community Suite

less than 0.1%

5.2%

Discourse

less than 0.1%

5.1%

Simple Machines Forum

less than 0.1%

4.6%

vBulletin

less than 0.1%

4.0%

Discuz!

less than 0.1%

3.9%

Asgaros Forum

less than 0.1%

3.0%

Nextcloud

less than 0.1%

2.3%

MyBB

less than 0.1%

2.0%

WoltLab Suite Forum

less than 0.1%

1.7%

Zimbra

less than 0.1%

1.7%

Mastodon

less than 0.1%

1.4%

Flarum

less than 0.1%

1.2%

NodeBB

less than 0.1%

0.4%

Higher Logic Vanilla

less than 0.1%

0.4%

Ning

less than 0.1%

0.3%

ownCloud

less than 0.1%

0.2%

Phorum

less than 0.1%

0.2%

SocialEngine

less than 0.1%

0.2%

YaBB

less than 0.1%

0.2%

UBB.threads

less than 0.1%

0.2%

Web Wiz Forums

less than 0.1%

0.1%

YAF.NET

less than 0.1%

0.1%

PunBB

less than 0.1%

0.1%

FluxBB

less than 0.1%

0.1%

W3Techs.com, 31 March 2026

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Percentages of websites using various community platforms

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Community Platforms
Community platforms are web application that allow creation of online community discussion and collaboration sites. Forum software and message boards are typical community platforms.

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