how is XF doing in term of customers compared to other platforms?

Is the total conserved in those plots (or do some sites drop out)? If it's conserved, then with most others flat since 2019, it suggests XF is eating away at VB quite significantly...
Not sure what you mean… the data for each month is locked in and doesn’t somehow retroactively change the past if that’s what you mean?
 
Not sure what you mean… the data for each month is locked in and doesn’t somehow retroactively change the past if that’s what you mean?

I meant is it always say a million sites you're surveying or does the number of sites fluctuate a lot over time? Having the absolute numbers would be cool too.
 
The total number of sites being spidered is constantly going up. More or less if a site gets more than 50(ish) unique visitors per month, it’s included. But if a site drops below 50(ish) it doesn’t get excluded. So the number of sites being indexed is constantly growing. That number of domains is currently around 30M unique domains (that got at least 50 unique visitors in a month at some point in the last 10 years).
 
Screenshot 2022-02-23 at 13-55-41 Forum Software Usage Distribution in the Top 1 Million Sites.webp

This does not include BuddyPress, BuddyBoss and other WordPress based forums.

Screenshot 2022-02-23 at 14-01-27 BuddyPress Usage Statistics.webp

Screenshot 2022-02-23 at 13-57-09 XenForo Usage Statistics.webp


Obviously there is a difference between what Builtwith and @digitalpoint are measuring. Builtwith is measuring more software platforms and they measure a different set of websites.
 
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Well there's also HTTP Archive Technology Report but that only measures sites/tech with enough traffic to be included by Google https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/new-dashboard-the-core-web-vitals-technology-report/2178/1

I use it to track Centmin Mod user adoption https://blog.centminmod.com/2021/10/18/2622/http-archives-core-web-vital-technology-report/

Here's direct link to forum comparison for HTTP Archive Technology Report https://datastudio.google.com/s/qd3MZ-DeCcE

default view is for mobile traffic first and chart is measure Origin's Google Core Web Vital metric as a % of the sites with good/passed CWV.

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Counting the origin sites for each technology

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That confused me too. It looks like around the time we changed the branding message from "Forum software by XenForo" to "Community platform by XenForo".

Certainly there's no logical explanation that matches up with the information we have.
 
Some of you guys might know. Other than the sites that list top sites using a software like BuiltWith and WhatCMS.org, are there free tools to dig deep and find forums that probably wouldn’t be in those paid lists?

My favorite too for discovering sites this way is https://publicwww.com/ which is a source code search engine that I find to be waaay more effective than Google search hacks. I’m just curious if there’s other similar, perhaps lesser-known tools out there.
 
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