Comments Tools

1. Disqus runs on more than half of the sites using a comments tool (77%), 4.7 times as many sites as Giscus.
2. Only 3 of the 24 comments tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
3. Among sites launched in September, Twikoo rose to #8 from #14 in August.

#	Movement	Tool	Country	Share	Bar	Sites	90 days
1	–	Disqus Hosted comments widget and discussion platform embedded on blogs and news sites.		77%		1,763
2	–	Giscus Open-source comments widget powered by GitHub Discussions		16%		375
3	–	W WidgetPack Embeddable comment system and social widgets for websites.		1.5%		35
4	▲5	Waline Lightweight self-hosted comment system.		0.8%		19
5	–	C Cusdis		0.8%		18
6	▲2	JComments Comment system extension for Joomla sites.		0.7%		16
7	▼6	U Utterances GitHub Issues-based comment widget for static sites; widely used on GitHub Pages and Jekyll blogs since 2018.		0.7%		16
8	▼2	Atabook Free hosted guestbook service that websites embed as an iframe or inline widget.		0.5%		11
9	▲6	Twikoo Open-source comment system for websites.		0.5%		11
10	▲4	HTML Comment Box Free hosted comment box widget that can be embedded on any web page.		0.4%		9

Share is of the 2,292 sites using a comments tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 10 of 24.

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