Channel.io vs Shopify Chat
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Channel.io · Shopify Chat · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
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 · Shopify Chat · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
766
18,334
South Korea
8,678
362
United Kingdom
213
6,074
Canada
270
4,763
India
304
4,640
Australia
226
4,150
Germany
177
3,852
France
173
3,720
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Channel.io | Shopify Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 500 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Channel.io to Shopify Chat
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| huloosleep.com | Jan 2026 |
| anniewearapparel.com | Oct 2025 |
Shopify Chat to Channel.io
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| nuias.jp | Aug 2026 |
| sfidasports.com | Jun 2026 |