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 219,631 live websites that use Message Boards.

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Message Boards usage statistics

Total sites that use Message Boards219,631 websites
Percentage of website that use category0.36%
Number of technologies in Message Boards category40
Category leader Discord
Fastest Growing Technology Discord
Most Popular in Country United States

Alternative Names

  • Internet Forums
  • Message Boards
  • Bulletin Boards

Subcategories



    Website Distribution by Country

    Number of websites using Message Boards
    United States92,612 websites


    Germany23,134 websites
    France22,094 websites
    Russia10,595 websites
    China6,452 websites
    GB6,296 websites
    Poland3,773 websites
    Netherlands3,425 websites
    Italy3,214 websites
    Korea, South2,984 websites

    Website Distribution by TLD

    Number of websites using Message Boards
    .com99,789 websites
    .org17,039 websites
    .net16,477 websites
    .de11,535 websites
    .ru8,679 websites
    .fr4,646 websites
    .co.uk3,224 websites
    .pl2,989 websites
    .it2,973 websites
    .nl2,451 websites

    Top Technologies

    Leading technologies in the Message Boards category (out of 40 total).
    TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
    Discord65,456 29.80% +476
    bbPress34,600 15.75% -217
    phpBB33,213 15.12% -138
    BuddyPress17,685 8.05% -464
    Discuz! X11,897 5.42% -494
    Altervista9,985 4.55% +108
    XenForo9,519 4.33% -7
    vBulletin6,644 3.03% -98
    SMF6,334 2.88% -97
    IPB5,931 2.70% -7
    Discourse5,027 2.29% +23
    Asgaros Forum4,352 1.98% -53
    MyBB3,024 1.38% -72
    TISTORY2,727 1.24% -125
    Burning Board2,293 1.04% -196
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    Top technology switches

    Number of websites that recently switched technologies within category

    FromToWebsite Count
    IPB XenForo4
    BuddyPress bbPress4
    vBulletin XenForo3
    bbPress BuddyPress3
    XenForo IPB2
    MyBB Burning Board2

    Websites utilizing Message Boards

    Top websites that use Message Boards
    DomainCountryRankContacts
    wordpress.org United States4
    cloudflare.com United States27
    en.wikipedia.org United States53
    cdn.shopify.com United States125
    de.wordpress.org United States287
    elegantthemes.com United States412
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