Companies Using Disqus
Our August 2026 crawl of 29.9M active business domains finds 13,033 companies using Disqus, from personal blogs to high-traffic brands that use Disqus like NVIDIA, Downdetector and 9to5Google. Below is the full list of companies using Disqus with industry breakdowns and geographic data.
Disqus claimed 750,000 websites and 500 million monthly unique visitors back in 2011. What our data shows now is a stable but ageing installed base: 55.85% of the companies running Disqus were founded in the 2010s and only 5.87% in the 2020s, the most backward-looking age curve in our commenting coverage. The top companies using Disqus span government portals (State of Michigan), tech publishers (APKMirror) and international newspapers (El Pais).
Published Apr 12, 2026 · Updated Sep 10, 2026 · Data analysed on September 10, 2026.
Disqus Usage Statistics
Disqus entered our v2 detection index in March 2026, so this chart covers six months rather than the platform's history since its 2007 launch. Active domains move from 11,425 in June to 13,033 in August 2026, and that rise reflects our crawl coverage widening rather than new installs. Churn is low at 1,272 domains dropped (about 10% of the live base), which fits a widget that stays until a site is rebuilt. The number that actually describes Disqus's trajectory is not on this chart: only 5.87% of its identifiable customers were founded in the 2020s, against 55.85% in the 2010s.
List of Companies Using Disqus
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| Company | Detection URL | Domain | Country | Industry | Employees | Type | Founded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| blogs.nvidia.com | nvidia.com | United States | Computer Hardware Manufacturing | 10001+ | Public Company | 1993 | https://linkedin.com/company/nvidia | |
| boat.oregon.gov | oregon.gov | United States | Government Administration | 10001+ | Government Agency | 1859 | https://linkedin.com/company/state-of-oregon | |
| mclaneco.com | mclaneco.com | United States | Truck Transportation | 10001+ | Public Company | 1894 | https://linkedin.com/company/mclane-company |
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Here are some of the most recognizable companies using Disqus and brands using Disqus in 2026:
- NVIDIA - Semiconductor giant running Disqus on developer blog subdomains (detected in our crawl data)
- Downdetector - High-traffic service status site using Disqus for user-reported outage discussions (per Wappalyzer)
- 9to5Google / 9to5Mac - Major Apple and Google news publishers using Disqus for article comments (per Wappalyzer)
- Pluralsight - Online learning platform with Disqus-powered discussions (per Wappalyzer)
- ACM Digital Library - Academic computing research portal at dl.acm.org using Disqus (per Wappalyzer)
- Raw Story - News publisher averaging 250K comments/month, featured in Disqus's own case studies (per about.disqus.com/case-study-raw-story)
- State of Michigan - US state government portal on michigan.gov with Disqus for citizen feedback (detected in our crawl data)
- El Pais - Spain's largest newspaper using Disqus for reader comments (per Wappalyzer)
Which Countries Use Disqus the Most?
Which countries use Disqus the most? The United States leads with 1,985 companies, 39.2% of the enriched base, followed by the United Kingdom (365), Brazil (311), Canada (201) and Australia (167). Brazil's third place reflects Disqus's long-standing popularity with Portuguese-language publishers and tech blogs. Europe is thin and evenly spread: Italy (132), Poland (125), Spain (100), Germany (87) and France (82), with none reaching 3% of the base.
Share of the 5,062 Disqus domains we matched to a company record — 38.8% of the 13,033 we detect. Top 15 countries shown, so these do not sum to 100%. Domains with no matching company record are not represented here and skew small and independent.
Disqus Market Share Among Community & Comments
What is Disqus's market share? Disqus holds a 4.6% share of the Community & Comments category on 13,033 detected domains, ranking #2 of 63 tracked technologies. The product above it needs explaining: Livefyre sits at 227,094 domains (80.11%), and Adobe discontinued Livefyre in 2017. Those detections are dead script tags left in templates nobody has touched in nine years, not a competing service. Measured against products that still exist, Disqus leads the category outright, and by a wide margin over XenForo (7,881) and phpBB (6,550).
Top Competitors by Market Share
Disqus Customers by Company Size & Age
Is Disqus only for small websites? Overwhelmingly, yes. 74.45% of identifiable Disqus customers have 1-10 employees and another 18.99% have 11-50, so 93.4% sit under 50 people, based on 5,062 enriched companies. This is a tool for independent publishers and personal blogs. Organisations with 10,001+ employees account for 0.23% (11 companies), and where they appear — NVIDIA, the State of Michigan — it is on a documentation portal or corporate blog rather than a primary homepage.
Company Size Distribution
Company Age (Founded Decade)
What Industries Use Disqus the Most?
Disqus's industry mix has shifted toward media. Advertising Services leads at 4.94%, followed by Technology, Information and Internet (4.76%) and IT Services (3.77%). The more meaningful figure is the publishing cluster: Online Audio and Video Media (3.25%), Media Production (3.23%), Book and Periodical Publishing (3.18%) and Entertainment Providers (2.61%) together reach 12.27%, which would lead the table by a factor of two if counted as one sector. That is Disqus's blog-and-publisher DNA showing clearly.
Publishing and media companies using Disqus are the platform's real core: online audio and video media (3.25%), media production (3.23%), book and periodical publishing (3.18%) and entertainment providers (2.61%) total 12.27% of identifiable customers. Advertising agencies on Disqus lead the individual table at 4.94%, and technology companies using Disqus follow at 4.76%. Raw Story, featured in Disqus's own case studies at roughly 250,000 comments a month, is the shape of the high-volume publisher this product was built for.
Disqus Alternatives & Competitors
The Community & Comments category has a leaderboard problem. Livefyre shows 227,094 domains (80.11%), but Adobe discontinued the service in 2017; those are abandoned script tags in unmaintained templates, and they say nothing about what publishers use today. Among products that still operate, Disqus leads at 13,033 domains, ahead of XenForo (7,881), phpBB (6,550), Discourse (3,760) and Invision Power Board (3,001) — and those four are self-hosted forum software rather than drop-in comment widgets, so they compete for a different job. The genuine competitive pressure on Disqus comes from native commenting shipped inside CMS platforms, chiefly WordPress, which runs on 55.67% of Disqus domains already.
| Technology | Domains | Market Share |
|---|---|---|
 | 227,094 | 80.11% |
 | 7,881 | 2.78% |
 | 6,550 | 2.31% |
 | 3,760 | 1.33% |
 | 3,001 | 1.06% |
Tech Stack of Disqus-Powered Websites
WordPress appears on 55.67% of Disqus domains, which is the central fact about this product: more than half its installs sit on a platform with its own built-in commenting, and chose to replace it. Squarespace follows at 17.76%, a platform whose native commenting is weaker, and Joomla at 2.88%. Google Analytics reaches 67.75%. The framework layer is unusually dated: AMP at 16.07%, Backbone.js at 3.32% and MooTools at 2.48% all rank above React at 2.42%. AMP and MooTools are both effectively legacy, and their prominence here is another reading of the same age signal in the founding-decade data.
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Disqus Customer Reviews with Pros and Cons
Based on 23 G2 reviews, Disqus users consistently praise the platform's ease of use and social login integration. The most common criticism relates to limited moderation tools on free plans and occasional performance issues with page load times.
Generated from real user reviews on G2
- Users praise the ease of use of Disqus, enabling quick setup of blog commenting with minimal technical knowledge.(8 reviews)
- Users appreciate the social login integration, allowing commenters to sign in via Google, Facebook, or Twitter for quick access.(6 reviews)
- Users highlight the upvoting and reaction system, which surfaces valuable comments and increases engagement on posts.(5 reviews)
- Users value the spam filtering and automated moderation that keeps comment sections clean without constant manual oversight.(4 reviews)
- Users appreciate the notification system that alerts them when others engage with their comments, driving return visits.(3 reviews)
- Users find the ad-supported free plan intrusive, with display ads that can slow page loads and disrupt the reading experience.(7 reviews)
- Users report page loading performance issues, as the third-party JavaScript embed can increase load times and hurt Core Web Vitals.(5 reviews)
- Users note the limited moderation tools on lower-tier plans, making it difficult to manage high-volume or contentious comment sections.(4 reviews)
- Users express concern about privacy and data tracking, as Disqus collects user browsing data across sites where it is embedded.(3 reviews)
- Users dislike the difficulty of migrating comments away from Disqus, citing complex export processes and data portability limitations.(2 reviews)
Expert Analysis: Disqus Growth Trends & Key Signals for Sales Teams in 2026
Our August 2026 crawl detects Disqus on 13,033 active domains, of which 5,062 match an enriched company record. Disqus entered our v2 detection index in March 2026, so the figures below describe a footprint rather than a trajectory — with one exception, which turns out to be the most informative number on the page.
The Age Curve Is the Story
Disqus's installed base is old, and not in the sense of long-tenured customers. 55.85% of identifiable Disqus customers were founded in the 2010s, 22.77% in the 2000s and 7.96% in the 1990s. Companies founded in the 2020s make up just 5.87%.
Compare that to any tool with current momentum, where the 2020s cohort typically runs 15-35%. A company founded after 2020 that wants comments does not reach for Disqus. The installed base is not shrinking quickly — churn is a modest 10% — but it is not being replenished either, and the founding-decade distribution shows that more clearly than any month-to-month domain count could.
The technology stack says the same thing from another direction. Among front-end frameworks on Disqus domains, AMP (16.07%), Backbone.js (3.32%) and MooTools (2.48%) all rank above React (2.42%). MooTools has been effectively dead for a decade and AMP is in retreat. These are sites built during Disqus's peak and maintained since.
"Founding decade is the most underrated field we hold. A flat domain count tells you a product is stable; the age curve tells you whether anyone new is arriving. Disqus at 5.87% from the 2020s is a product being maintained, not adopted."
- Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io
The Category Leader Was Discontinued in 2017
Disqus ranks #2 in Community & Comments behind Livefyre at 227,094 domains (80.11%). Adobe shut Livefyre down in 2017. Those 227,094 detections are script tags sitting in templates nobody has edited in nine years, and they are a useful reminder that a detection counts what a page serves, not what a business uses.
Measured against products that still operate, Disqus leads outright. The next four — XenForo (7,881), phpBB (6,550), Discourse (3,760) and Invision Power Board (3,001) — are self-hosted forum packages rather than drop-in comment widgets, so they are not really substitutes either.
The competitor that matters is not in the category at all. WordPress runs on 55.67% of Disqus domains, and WordPress ships commenting out of the box. Every one of those sites made a deliberate choice to replace a working native feature with third-party JavaScript, and every one of them can reverse that decision without migrating anything.
Publishing Is the Real Vertical
The industry table shows Advertising Services on top at 4.94%, but split categories hide the actual concentration. Online Audio and Video Media (3.25%), Media Production (3.23%), Book and Periodical Publishing (3.18%) and Entertainment Providers (2.61%) together account for 12.27% — more than double the nominal leader.
That is Disqus working as designed. Its case studies cite Raw Story at roughly 250,000 comments a month, and high-volume moderation is the one job where a hosted comment service still clearly beats a CMS plugin.
Sales Signal: The publisher cluster is where budget and need coexist. A 1-10 employee blog running Disqus has no purchasing power; a media production company moderating thousands of comments monthly has both a cost and a compliance problem worth solving.
Why There Is No Migration Table
No switching corridor out of Disqus beats the rate among domains that stayed. The volumes are the reason: against 1,272 total departures, the largest flow to any named competitor was seven domains (Livefyre, itself defunct). Discourse took two, vBulletin two, phpBB one.
Sites do not leave Disqus for another comment system. They leave by turning comments off, or by falling back to what their CMS already provides — and neither destination is something a crawler can attribute. With WordPress on more than half the base, the most likely exit is a setting change that leaves no trace at all.
Customer Profile
74.45% of identifiable customers have 1-10 employees and 18.99% have 11-50, so 93.4% are under fifty people — one of the most concentrated size distributions in our index. Only 0.23% have 10,001+ employees. Large-organisation detections (NVIDIA, Gilead Sciences, the State of Michigan) sit on documentation portals and corporate blogs rather than primary properties.
Geographically the United States accounts for 1,985 companies (39.2%), with the United Kingdom (365) and Brazil (311) next. Brazil ahead of Canada and Australia is a genuine Disqus characteristic, reflecting its adoption among Portuguese-language publishers.
Key Takeaways
1. Only 5.87% of Disqus customers were founded in the 2020s, against 55.85% in the 2010s. The base is maintained, not replenished.
2. The category leader, Livefyre, was discontinued by Adobe in 2017. Its 227,094 domains are abandoned script tags.
3. Among live products, Disqus leads at 13,033 domains, and the next four are self-hosted forum software, not comment widgets.
4. WordPress runs on 55.67% of Disqus domains and ships native commenting. That, not another vendor, is the competitive pressure.
5. Publishing and media total 12.27%, more than double the nominal top industry.
6. No switching corridor exists. The largest flow to any competitor was seven domains; sites leave by switching comments off.
Sales Applications
Targeting strategy: The publisher and media cluster (12.27%) at 11-200 employees. Below that, the base is individual bloggers with no budget.
Competitive angle: If you sell a commenting or community product, the argument that lands is performance and data ownership, and the audience is publishers already paying attention to third-party JavaScript. If you sell to Disqus customers, assume an established company, a WordPress site and a long-standing template.
For the full breakdown of all 13,033 Disqus domains and their enriched firmographic profiles, explore our dataset at TechnologyChecker.io.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who uses Disqus?
We detect Disqus on 13,033 domains, including NVIDIA Corporation, oregon.gov, McLane. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Advertising Services (4.94%).
How many customers does Disqus have?
We detect 13,033 domains running Disqus across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 5,062 of them (38.8%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 1,272 domains carried a Disqus detection previously and no longer do.
What is Disqus's market share?
Disqus holds 4.6% of the Community & Comments category, ranking #2. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.
What are the best alternatives to Disqus?
The top alternatives to Disqus include Livefyre (80.11% market share), XenForo (2.78% market share), phpBB (2.31% market share), Discourse (1.33% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.
Which countries use Disqus the most?
United States leads with 1,985 matched Disqus domains, followed by United Kingdom (365), Brazil (311), Canada (201), Australia (167). These are counts within the 5,062 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.
What size companies use Disqus?
The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 74.45% of the Disqus domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 5,062 matched companies, not of all 13,033 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (18.99%) and 51-200 employees (4.33%).
How old are companies that use Disqus?
Among the Disqus domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (55.85%), followed by the 2000s (22.77%). That matched subset is drawn from 5,062 companies and is not representative of all 13,033 detected domains. This suggests Disqus is most popular among relatively young companies.
What is the ideal customer profile for Disqus?
The ideal Disqus customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, UK, or Brazil, City: London, New York, Sao Paulo, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~5-15 years old — based on our analysis of 5,062 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.
Is Disqus free to use?
Yes, Disqus offers a free Basic plan supported by advertising. The free tier includes core commenting features, spam filtering, and social login. Paid plans remove ads and add features: Plus costs $18/month (up to 350K monthly pageviews) and Pro costs $125/month with advanced moderation, analytics, and dedicated support. Over 95% of sites use the free plan, per Disqus.
Does Disqus sell user data?
Disqus collects pseudonymous analytics data including IP addresses, browser info, and referring pages from sites where it is embedded. Outside the EEA, Disqus may share data with third parties under legitimate interest, per their privacy policy. Users can opt out of personalized advertising through Disqus's data settings. Privacy concerns have driven some publishers to switch to self-hosted alternatives.
Is Disqus still widely used in 2026?
Yes, though its base is ageing rather than growing. Our August 2026 crawl detects Disqus on 13,033 active domains, which makes it the most widely deployed comment system that is still operating — the nominal category leader, Livefyre, was discontinued by Adobe in 2017 and its 227,094 detections are abandoned script tags. The telling figure is that only 5.87% of identifiable Disqus customers were founded in the 2020s, against 55.85% in the 2010s.
What are the best free alternatives to Disqus?
For most sites the answer is already installed: WordPress runs on 55.67% of Disqus domains and ships native commenting at no cost. Beyond that, self-hosted options in our index include phpBB (6,550 domains), Discourse (3,760) and Invision Power Board (3,001), though these are forum packages rather than drop-in widgets. Developer-oriented tools that use GitHub Issues as a backend are popular but too small to register meaningfully in crawl data.
Does Disqus affect website page speed?
Yes. Disqus loads third-party JavaScript, and performance is the most common criticism in review data. The detection data shows the base is unusually performance-sensitive in one respect: AMP appears on 16.07% of Disqus domains, a framework built specifically for fast page loads, which sits awkwardly with a heavy comment embed. Lazy-loading the thread until a reader scrolls to it is the standard mitigation.
How does Disqus make money?
Disqus monetizes through advertising on its free Basic plan. Publishers using the free tier see display ads within the Disqus comment widget on their sites. Paid plans (Plus at $18/month, Pro at $125/month) allow publishers to disable ads and access advanced features. The Business plan offers custom pricing for large publishers with dedicated account management. Disqus has been owned by Zeta Global since December 2017.
Can Disqus be used with WordPress?
Yes, via an official plugin, and WordPress is by far its most common host: our data shows WordPress on 55.67% of Disqus domains. That is worth pausing on, because WordPress already ships commenting. More than half of Disqus installs are a deliberate decision to replace a working native feature with third-party JavaScript, usually for moderation tooling and social login — and that decision can be reversed without migrating anything.
What industries use Disqus the most?
Advertising Services leads the individual table at 4.94%, followed by Technology, Information and Internet (4.76%) and IT Services (3.77%). The real concentration is publishing, split across four categories: online audio and video media (3.25%), media production (3.23%), book and periodical publishing (3.18%) and entertainment providers (2.61%) total 12.27%, more than double the nominal leader. This is based on the 5,062 Disqus domains we can match to a company record.
Who owns Disqus?
Disqus is owned by Zeta Global, a marketing technology company that acquired it in December 2017 for an undisclosed amount. Disqus was originally founded in October 2007 by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan at the University of California, Davis as a Y Combinator startup. Daniel Ha continues to serve as CEO. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.
How do I export comments from Disqus?
Disqus allows site administrators to export all comments as an XML file through the admin dashboard under Community > Export. The XML format is compatible with WordPress and other CMS platforms that support Disqus comment imports. Note that export can take time for large comment datasets and only includes comments, not user profile data or reaction counts.
Is Disqus good for SEO?
Disqus comments are loaded via JavaScript, which means search engines may not index comment content directly. Google can render JavaScript but doesn't guarantee indexing of dynamically loaded comments. Some SEO practitioners avoid Disqus for this reason. The platform does offer SEO benefits through increased engagement, return visits, and time-on-page, but the third-party JavaScript load can hurt Core Web Vitals scores.
What platforms support Disqus integration?
Disqus integrates with WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Weebly, Blogger, Ghost, Jekyll, Hugo, Shopify, HubSpot CMS, Joomla, Drupal, and static site generators. It uses a universal JavaScript embed code that works on any HTML page. Disqus also provides official plugins for WordPress and Joomla, and offers API access for custom integrations on proprietary platforms.
Based on 5,062 company data
These insights include all TechnologyChecker.io detections of Disqus (free & paid plans).