Drift vs Shopify Chat
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Drift · Shopify Chat · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
5
2
Open Page Rank 8+
54
11
Open Page Rank 7+
120
28
Open Page Rank 6+
176
44
Open Page Rank 5+
277
87
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Drift · Shopify Chat · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,189
18,334
United Kingdom
1,202
6,074
India
1,670
4,640
Canada
1,286
4,763
Australia
848
4,150
Germany
745
3,852
France
744
3,720
Italy
620
2,850
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Drift | Shopify Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.