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+
20
59
Open Page Rank 7+
67
182
Open Page Rank 6+
112
324
Open Page Rank 5+
187
527
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
294
9,230
South Korea
8,678
462
United States
766
7,553
Poland
82
4,015
Thailand
240
3,483
Canada
270
3,278
India
304
3,181
United Kingdom
213
3,249
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, 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.