How many phpBB installations, worldwide?

Meis2M · Post by **Meis2M** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:05 pm

Hi,

Is there any information available on how many phpBB installations there are, worldwide?

Elias · Post by **Elias** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:39 pm

All i can say is when i googled "Powered by phpBB" i got about 172,000,000 results!

Which is huge.

T0ny · Post by **T0ny** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:18 pm

seaching inurl:index.php "Powered by phpBB" returns About 55,000,000 results

drathbun · Post by **drathbun** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:50 pm

There are at least two.

There's really no reliable way to figure this out. Also some boards or sites might have a phpBB installation but the site is essentially abandoned, so the only active members are spammers. Some domains might have more than one installation of phpBB.

noth · Post by **noth** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:05 pm

and for the "top of the tree" phpBB don't forget http://www.phpbb.com/showcase/

Meis2M · Post by **Meis2M** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:36 pm

so phpBB is more or Vbulletin?

Elias · Post by **Elias** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:49 pm

Meis2M wrote:so phpBB is more or Vbulletin?

TBH, what does it matter?

MichaelC · Post by **MichaelC** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:05 pm

Well, a number quite often used is 2 million however I've seen the number 5 million also used, 19.192 million downloads on sourceforge. Google comes up with 55 million so it really does depend on your source. There is no accurate way of working it out as sometimes people download phpBB and then use it multiple times or not at all, there are multiple places to download it and sometimes people give it to each other, not everyone uses the 'send statistics' feature added in 3.0.6, some boards aren't indexed by google, some boards are on internal servers, some remove the credit line, some are on freehosts, some have multiple boards on one domain, there are some phpBB forks etc. Then if you count boards on local PCs then I have over 100 (all for testing MODs etc.)

There is no accurate way to tell as with all open source software. Propriety Software can give you a number of active licences but that doesn't count nulled installations or local installations.

I would take an educated guess that there are probably more phpBB installations than vB installations as its open source free software but they don't release numbers and we don't know a number so there is no way to compare.

And phpBB is constantly being downloaded more times (for example sourceforge, which isn't our main downloads location anymore still gets around 400 downloads a week). The internet is always expanding.

Disclaimer: None of the numbers mentioned in this post are necessarily true, as I said, there is simply no way to know.

Pony99CA · Post by **Pony99CA** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:53 pm

T0ny wrote:seaching inurl:index.php "Powered by phpBB" returns About 55,000,000 results

I just tried that and got about 14,800,000 results. That's a pretty significant difference in about two days.

For what it's worth, here are Google results for other boards:

inurl:index.php "Powered by vBulletin": About 238,000,000 results
inurl:index.php "Community Forum Software by IP.Board": About 55,800,000 results

Steve

Rahber · Post by **Rahber** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:47 am

Google!

i get
22,200,000 results. on Google.com
54,500,000 results on Google.co.uk

do you know
SMF has single file index.php that is used to view forum and for everything
so you cant really get an exact figure for SMF and so is for IP Board.

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