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Websites using vBulletin 3.x

vBulletin is tool that is used to create and manage online forums or discussion boards. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.

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Every vBulletin 3.x website we detected in Russia.

Only sites where a personal, company-hosted email was found.

Sites with at least one personnel LinkedIn profile.

Start with the highest-traffic end of the dataset.

Limit results to vBulletin 3.x websites on .com domains.

Only sites where an organisation phone number was found.

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Versions

Which vBulletin 3.x versions are most used?

We could read a version number on 56% of vBulletin 3.x sites. Of those, the most common are vBulletin 3.8.11, on 205 sites, vBulletin 3.8.7, on 204 sites and vBulletin 3.8.4, on 111 sites.

29% on v3.8.11
Versions detected
5
Sites with a version
696
Share of sites by version
v3.8.11 29% v3.8.7 29% v3.8.4 16% v3.8.9 14% v3.8.6 11%

How many websites use vBulletin 3.x?

We found vBulletin 3.x on 1,233 websites in our September 2026 crawl, across 50 countries.

Which countries use vBulletin 3.x the most?

By number of websites, the top countries are Russia (18%, 216 sites), United States (17%, 205 sites), Germany (11%, 138 sites), France (4%, 46 sites) and Turkey (3%, 42 sites). Together they account for 52% of the 1,233 vBulletin 3.x sites we track. 32% of the sites are in English, and .com is the most used domain ending, on 43% of them.

Where are vBulletin 3.x websites hosted?

The networks carrying the most vBulletin 3.x sites are Cloudflare, Inc. (274 sites), Hetzner Online GmbH (122 sites) and CLOUDFLARENET (52 sites).

What technologies are used with vBulletin 3.x?

Across the 1,233 vBulletin 3.x sites we track, the technologies most often found alongside it are PHP (100%, 1,233 sites), YUI (86%, 1,055 sites), Apache HTTP Server (32%, 398 sites), HTTP/3 (32%, 391 sites) and Cloudflare (28%, 347 sites).

Deep Dive

Breakdown of vBulletin 3.x websites

What else they run, plus their language, hosting network, domain extension and country.

FAQ

Answers drawn from our latest crawl of vBulletin 3.x websites. Anything else, email us and we will look it up.

Through our own crawl, which checks each site's HTML, scripts and headers rather than relying on self-reported data.