ApexChat vs Facebook Chat Plugin
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ApexChat · Facebook Chat Plugin · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
8
Open Page Rank 8+
1
62
Open Page Rank 7+
3
191
Open Page Rank 6+
5
341
Open Page Rank 5+
12
559
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
ApexChat · Facebook Chat Plugin · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,569
8,892
Vietnam
1
11,331
Poland
6
4,641
Canada
192
3,789
Thailand
2
3,959
United Kingdom
93
3,807
India
99
3,748
Taiwan
2
3,302
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ApexChat | Facebook Chat Plugin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.