Helpscout vs Shopify Chat

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

456
websites, to Jan 2022
vs
232,334
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.

By country

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

United States 85 7,705
United Kingdom 52 2,805
India 45 2,330
Canada 41 2,285
Germany 27 1,970
France 25 1,829
Australia 33 1,757
Italy 27 1,598

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

Real user performance

Metric Helpscout Shopify Chat
LCP 1.8 s 1.5 s
INP 75 ms 100 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 700 ms 500 ms

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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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