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+
5
8
Open Page Rank 8+
18
62
Open Page Rank 7+
63
191
Open Page Rank 6+
110
341
Open Page Rank 5+
182
559
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
321
11,331
South Korea
9,370
582
United States
830
8,892
Poland
85
4,641
Thailand
253
3,959
Canada
284
3,789
India
309
3,748
United Kingdom
219
3,807
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, 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.