Akismet vs Contact Form 7

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Akismet · Contact Form 7 · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Akismet · Contact Form 7 · share of sites in each country using one or the other

Japan 2,035

230,323

United States 18,773

208,161

India 3,743

131,722

Italy 2,745

124,689

Germany 1,707

109,816

Spain 3,442

103,856

France 2,814

101,458

United Kingdom 3,618

90,771

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Akismet sites · All Contact Form 7 sites