IntenseDebate vs utterances
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
IntenseDebate · utterances · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
2
Open Page Rank 8+
4
2
Open Page Rank 7+
4
5
Open Page Rank 6+
6
5
Open Page Rank 5+
8
6
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
IntenseDebate · utterances · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
49
10
Russia
32
5
United Kingdom
26
6
Germany
24
6
Indonesia
20
9
France
23
5
India
20
8
Canada
22
5
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | IntenseDebate | utterances |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 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.