Helpscout vs Shopify Chat

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

456
websites, to Jan 2022
vs
269,247
websites

Detections for Helpscout end in Jan 2022. The fingerprint catalog behind our crawls no longer carries that technology as its own entry, usually because it was retired or split into more specific ones, so its figure is the last recorded and is not directly comparable with a currently tracked technology.

Top sites by authority

Helpscout · Shopify Chat · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 0 2
Open Page Rank 8+ 0 11
Open Page Rank 7+ 0 28
Open Page Rank 6+ 0 44
Open Page Rank 5+ 0 87

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Helpscout · Shopify Chat · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 90 18,334
United Kingdom 54 6,074
Canada 44 4,763
India 47 4,640
Australia 36 4,150
Germany 28 3,852
France 27 3,720
Italy 28 2,850

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric Helpscout Shopify Chat
LCP 1.9 s 1.5 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 700 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.

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