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+
15
3
Open Page Rank 8+
93
4
Open Page Rank 7+
248
4
Open Page Rank 6+
418
6
Open Page Rank 5+
688
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
5,653
49
India
2,979
20
United Kingdom
2,732
26
Brazil
2,467
19
Canada
2,362
22
Germany
2,037
24
Indonesia
2,036
20
Spain
1,796
21
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Disqus | IntenseDebate |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 1000 ms |
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.
Disqus to IntenseDebate
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| animeh.top | Apr 2026 |