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
59
Open Page Rank 7+
3
182
Open Page Rank 6+
5
324
Open Page Rank 5+
12
527
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
2,192
7,553
Vietnam
2
9,230
Poland
2
4,015
Thailand
2
3,483
Canada
181
3,278
United Kingdom
70
3,249
India
68
3,181
Hungary
1
2,899
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ApexChat | Facebook Chat Plugin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 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, 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.