Message Boards

Parent Category: CMS

Internet forum software provides users functionality to create, manage, and administrate internet message boards. Most forum software provides options to customize look and feel.


We have discovered 226,858 live websites that use Message Boards.

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Message Boards usage statistics

Total sites that use Message Boards226,858 websites
Percentage of website that use category0.28%
Number of technologies in Message Boards category39
Category leader bbPress
Fastest Growing Technology Substack
Most Popular in Country United States

Alternative Names

  • Internet Forums
  • Message Boards
  • Bulletin Boards



Top Technologies

Top 6 technologies in Message Boards category (out of 39 total).
TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
bbPress47,725 21.04% -950
phpBB38,860 17.13% -96
Substack29,127 12.84% +1,761
BuddyPress26,472 11.67% -3,590
Discuz! X16,695 7.36% -190
XenForo11,045 4.87% +37
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Top technology switches

Number of websites that switched technologies within category in the past 3 months

FromToWebsite Count
vBulletin XenForo17
BuddyPress bbPress13
bbPress Asgaros Forum5
bbPress BuddyPress5
Asgaros Forum bbPress4
phpBB XenForo4

Message Boards usage distribution by website rank

The correlation between utilization of Message Boards technologies and the relative popularity of websites

Geographical Distribution

Category usage distribution by websites across the globe.



Websites utilizing Message Boards

Top websites that use Message Boards
DomainCountryRankContacts
wordpress.org United States4
www.godaddy.com United States97
statcounter.com Ireland129
de.wordpress.org United States287
ja.wordpress.org United States486
www.businessinsider.com United States572
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