Element vs Shopify Chat
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Element · Shopify Chat · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
3
Open Page Rank 8+
0
15
Open Page Rank 7+
0
55
Open Page Rank 6+
0
103
Open Page Rank 5+
0
192
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Element · Shopify Chat · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
6
42,843
United Kingdom
2
14,112
Canada
3
10,661
India
3
10,004
Australia
2
9,526
France
2
8,237
Germany
5
8,217
Italy
3
5,905
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Element | Shopify Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 137 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 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.