Disqus vs utterances
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Disqus · utterances · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
15
2
Open Page Rank 8+
91
2
Open Page Rank 7+
241
5
Open Page Rank 6+
406
6
Open Page Rank 5+
664
7
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Disqus · utterances · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
5,573
12
India
2,934
9
United Kingdom
2,716
5
Canada
2,391
5
Brazil
2,378
7
Germany
1,993
6
Indonesia
1,961
9
Spain
1,836
4
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Disqus | utterances |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 600 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.