Disqus vs IntenseDebate
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Disqus · IntenseDebate · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
16
3
Open Page Rank 8+
92
4
Open Page Rank 7+
240
4
Open Page Rank 6+
395
6
Open Page Rank 5+
639
8
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Disqus · IntenseDebate · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
5,573
53
India
2,934
21
United Kingdom
2,716
27
Canada
2,391
24
Brazil
2,378
20
Germany
1,993
22
Indonesia
1,961
19
Spain
1,836
21
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Disqus | IntenseDebate |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.
Disqus to IntenseDebate
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| animeh.top | Apr 2026 |