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Welcome to the final installment of the (unofficial) bbPress Top 100 !

This will be the last look* at the incredible growth and diversity of

bbPress adoption around the world over the past several years.

You can see the previous summaries here via the Top100 tag.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

The list is based on post count which implies highest activity.

Sites that appear to fake the numbers or have dubious content

have been moved to the bottom of the Top 10,000

To see the complete Top 10,000 requires free registration/login:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top10000

Logged in users can also search the list and view the experimental

Tag Cloud http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top10000?cloud

and vote on sites that may have superior design even if they didn’t

make the Top 100 regardless of their volume of activity.

This list does not include most of the 1000+ or so BuddyPress installations

that use bbPress to power sub-forums for their groups. This is for technical

reasons, not political – it’s virtually impossible to analyze bbPress under

BuddyPress because of how it’s filtered and blocked. If you have a large

bbPress installation under BuddyPress and you are not in the current list,

contact me for a way to be included if your site would fall in the top 1,000.

*The upcoming rewrite of bbPress will make this kind of third-party analysis

extremely difficult but also unneccesary since it will start to “phone home”

as part of WordPress to Automattic on a daily basis from your server

with all your details, configuration and install information anyway.

So on that note, let’s take a look at the results from the final list!

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In October 2010, to make the Top 100 (out of 10,000+ installations) now requires over 50,000 posts!

We have a new leader Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine

beating out the old champion Simon & Schuster (international book publisher).

with nearly 1.8 MILLION posts. Absolutely incredible growth!

There are five bbPress powered forums with over a million posts now!

singletrackworld.com  http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/

simonandschuster.com  http://forums.simonandschuster.com/

wordpress.org         https://wordpress.org/support/

greedyorneedy.com     http://www.greedyorneedy.com/forum/

weddingbee.com        http://boards.weddingbee.com/

Nearly 300 more have over ten thousand posts,

and nearly 1,000 have over one thousand posts.

Over four dozen new bbPress powered forums are put online every week on average!

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In October 2010, to make the Top 100 (out of 10,000+ installations) now requires over 50,000 posts!

We have a new leader Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine

beating out the old champion Simon & Schuster (international book publisher).

with nearly 1.8 MILLION posts. Absolutely incredible growth!

There are five bbPress powered forums with over a million posts now!

singletrackworld.com  http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/

simonandschuster.com  http://forums.simonandschuster.com/

wordpress.org         https://wordpress.org/support/

greedyorneedy.com     http://www.greedyorneedy.com/forum/

weddingbee.com        http://boards.weddingbee.com/

Nearly 300 more have over ten thousand posts,

and nearly 1,000 have over one thousand posts.

Over four dozen new bbPress powered forums are put online every week on average!

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bbPress is now being used in over 100 countries/regions in over 50 languages!

Here is a sample of the Top 50 countries/regions:

United States

Russia

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

France

Italy

Turkey

Poland

Brazil

Canada

China

Netherlands

Sweden

Japan

Australia

Denmark

Romania

Ukraine

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Finland

Norway

Argentina

Thailand

Bulgaria

South Africa

Iran

Hungary

Austria

Latvia

Lithuania

Belgium

New Zealand

Israel

Indonesia

Slovakia

Portugal

Tokelau

Ireland

Chile

Mexico

South Korea

Serbia

Taiwan

Saudi Arabia

Greece

Malaysia

Estonia

Philippines

Note that the targeted audience as indicated by the flags on the right of the list is more of an art than a science, so please do not be insulted if my algorithm got it wrong. It’s a combination of looking at the TLD and the declared language type being used on the page.

For example a site may have a flag for Spain if Spanish is used but no other specific variation or TLD is used, etc.

The most popular TLDs for bbPress forums are:

.com (by 50% !)

.org

.net

.ru

.uk

.de

.it

.info

.ca   (honourable mention as .ca has 50% less than .info

however pl, fr, nl, se and au all have over 100 sites)

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bbPress is now being used in over 100 countries/regions in over 50 languages!

Here is a sample of the Top 50 countries/regions:

United States

Russia

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

France

Italy

Turkey

Poland

Brazil

Canada

China

Netherlands

Sweden

Japan

Australia

Denmark

Romania

Ukraine

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Finland

Norway

Argentina

Thailand

Bulgaria

South Africa

Iran

Hungary

Austria

Latvia

Lithuania

Belgium

New Zealand

Israel

Indonesia

Slovakia

Portugal

Tokelau

Ireland

Chile

Mexico

South Korea

Serbia

Taiwan

Saudi Arabia

Greece

Malaysia

Estonia

Philippines

Note that the targeted audience as indicated by the flags on the right of the list is more of an art than a science, so please do not be insulted if my algorithm got it wrong. It’s a combination of looking at the TLD and the declared language type being used on the page.

For example a site may have a flag for Spain if Spanish is used but no other specific variation or TLD is used, etc.

The most popular TLDs for bbPress forums are:

.com (by 50% !)

.org

.net

.ru

.uk

.de

.it

.info

.ca   (honourable mention as .ca has 50% less than .info

however pl, fr, nl, se and au all have over 100 sites)

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Some interesting statistics for the entire 10,000+ collection of all bbPress installations:

bbPress Version Popularity

1.1 : 1%

1.0 : 48%

0.9 : 36%

0.8 : 15%   (includes sites below 1.x that hide their version

as 0.8 has no consistent way to be detected)

PHP Popularity

5.3 : 4%

5.2 : 70%

5.1 : 4%

5.0 : 1%

4.4 : 6%

4.3 : 1%

?? : 15% (unknown)

So PHP version 5 adoption has finally taken off in late 2010.

Server Popularity

Apache 	 	: 40%  	  (specific version unknown)

Apache/2.2 	: 35%

Apache/2 	: 10%	  (sub-version unknown)

Apache/1.3 	: 5%

Nginx 		: 5%

Microsoft-IIS	: 3%

Litespeed 	: 2%

(and quite a few others/variations but below a single percent each)

Downloads via bbPress.org as of October 2010

bbPress 0.9 : 150,000+

bbPress 1.0 : 129,000+

_ck_ plugins: 102,000+ (total, all included)

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Some interesting statistics for the entire 10,000+ collection of all bbPress installations:

bbPress Version Popularity

1.1 : 1%

1.0 : 48%

0.9 : 36%

0.8 : 15%   (includes sites below 1.x that hide their version

as 0.8 has no consistent way to be detected)

PHP Popularity

5.3 : 4%

5.2 : 70%

5.1 : 4%

5.0 : 1%

4.4 : 6%

4.3 : 1%

?? : 15% (unknown)

So PHP version 5 adoption has finally taken off in late 2010.

Server Popularity

Apache 	 	: 40%  	  (specific version unknown)

Apache/2.2 	: 35%

Apache/2 	: 10%	  (sub-version unknown)

Apache/1.3 	: 5%

Nginx 		: 5%

Microsoft-IIS	: 3%

Litespeed 	: 2%

(and quite a few others/variations but below a single percent each)

Downloads via bbPress.org as of October 2010

bbPress 0.9 : 150,000+

bbPress 1.0 : 129,000+

_ck_ plugins: 102,000+ (total, all included)

[Gautam Gupta]

Great stats!

[Gautam Gupta]

Great stats!

[Real Estate Transaction Management]

I am really surprised by those numbers. One issue I always have is upgrading my platforms to the latest and greatest. We are looking at using bbpress for a community portion of our product and I am encourage my the forward progress from its members.

Steve

[Real Estate Transaction Management]

I am really surprised by those numbers. One issue I always have is upgrading my platforms to the latest and greatest. We are looking at using bbpress for a community portion of our product and I am encourage my the forward progress from its members.

Steve