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 18,773

69,463

United Kingdom 3,618

21,866

India 3,743

16,890

Japan 2,035

17,420

France 2,814

15,318

Canada 2,964

15,134

Spain 3,442

14,392

Italy 2,745

12,861

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 MonsterInsights sites