Akismet vs MonsterInsights

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

Top sites by authority

Akismet · MonsterInsights · 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 · MonsterInsights · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 16,426

60,797

United Kingdom 3,041

18,437

India 3,199

14,252

Japan 1,732

14,750

Canada 2,496

12,647

Spain 2,802

11,858

France 2,188

12,240

Italy 2,234

10,704

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, Aug 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 MonsterInsights sites