Channel.io vs Facebook Chat Plugin
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Channel.io · Facebook Chat Plugin · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
8
Open Page Rank 8+
19
54
Open Page Rank 7+
65
162
Open Page Rank 6+
112
298
Open Page Rank 5+
194
488
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Channel.io · Facebook Chat Plugin · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Vietnam
278
9,058
South Korea
8,688
465
United States
753
7,263
Poland
78
3,910
Thailand
231
3,434
Canada
264
3,228
India
302
3,116
United Kingdom
210
3,121
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Channel.io | Facebook Chat Plugin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 900 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.