Facebook Chat Plugin vs Front Chat
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Facebook Chat Plugin · Front Chat · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
8
1
Open Page Rank 8+
59
7
Open Page Rank 7+
182
21
Open Page Rank 6+
324
43
Open Page Rank 5+
527
77
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Facebook Chat Plugin · Front Chat · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Vietnam
9,230
48
United States
7,553
663
Poland
4,015
78
United Kingdom
3,249
290
Thailand
3,483
53
Canada
3,278
256
India
3,181
223
Hungary
2,899
43
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Facebook Chat Plugin | Front Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 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.