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On this page are presented a few statistics about the forums listed on big-boards. You can see statistics for the forum software used, the categories in which boards are listed, the programming language used for the board and the language spoken by the users on the forums.
| Forum Software (number of message boards of each type) | |
|---|---|
| vBulletin |  1301 |
| Invision | 275 |
| phpBB | 245 |
| custom | 104 |
| SMF | 42 |
| UBB | 41 |
| ezboard | 37 |
| MesDiscussions.net | 18 |
| ASP Playground | 16 |
| Burning Board | 14 |
| proboards | 7 |
| Fusetalk | 7 |
| ASP.net | 5 |
| Snitz | 5 |
| XMB | 5 |
| Jive | 4 |
| YaBB | 4 |
| Ikonboard | 4 |
| zeroforum | 4 |
| Web Wiz Forums | 4 |
| Lithium | 4 |
| IGNBoards | 3 |
| Ideal BB | 3 |
| discuz | 3 |
| Aceboard | 3 |
| 2 | |
| wwwthreads | 2 |
| CrazyWeb | 2 |
| WebCrossing | 2 |
| WowBB | 2 |
| React | 2 |
| Novogate | 1 |
| PunBB | 1 |
| Opentopic | 1 |
| dotNetBB | 1 |
| Categories (number of message boards in each category) | |
|---|---|
| art | 138 |
| business | 58 |
| computers | 324 |
| entertainment | 438 |
| games | 391 |
| general | 218 |
| health | 55 |
| home | 79 |
| recreation | 408 |
| science | 70 |
| society | 257 |
| sports | 221 |
| Zoints Enabled | 20 |
| Programming languages used | |
|---|---|
| PHP | 2042 |
| ASP | 49 |
| Perl - CGI | 43 |
| SmallTalk | 22 |
| ColdFusion | 11 |
| Java | 7 |
| Languages spoken on the boards | |
|---|---|
| English | 1639 |
| German | 137 |
| French | 73 |
| Dutch | 52 |
| Russian | 48 |
| Spanish | 46 |
| Italian | 33 |
| Turkish | 32 |
| Chinese | 19 |
| Portuguese | 17 |
| Swedish | 17 |
| Polish | 17 |
| Romanian | 8 |
| Norvegian | 7 |
| Finnish | 7 |
| Greek | 4 |
| Indonesian | 4 |
| Hungarian | 3 |
| Bulgarian | 3 |
| Other | 2 |
| Hebrew | 2 |
| Vietnamese | 2 |
| Pakistani | 1 |
| Other | 1 |