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+
62
8
Open Page Rank 7+
191
24
Open Page Rank 6+
341
44
Open Page Rank 5+
559
78
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
11,331
56
United States
8,892
753
Poland
4,641
76
United Kingdom
3,807
342
Canada
3,789
281
Thailand
3,959
62
India
3,748
253
Philippines
3,282
119
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Facebook Chat Plugin | Front Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 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.