ApexChat vs Shopify Chat
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ApexChat · Shopify Chat · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 8+
1
0
Open Page Rank 7+
3
0
Open Page Rank 6+
4
0
Open Page Rank 5+
10
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
ApexChat · Shopify Chat · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,102
7,705
United Kingdom
61
2,805
Canada
172
2,285
India
64
2,330
Germany
4
1,970
Australia
90
1,757
France
4
1,829
Italy
2
1,598
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ApexChat | Shopify Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.