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+
93
2
Open Page Rank 7+
248
5
Open Page Rank 6+
418
5
Open Page Rank 5+
688
6
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
5,653
10
India
2,979
8
United Kingdom
2,732
6
Brazil
2,467
7
Canada
2,362
5
Indonesia
2,036
9
Germany
2,037
6
Spain
1,796
4
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Disqus | utterances |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 500 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.