Shopify Chat vs WidgetWhats
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Shopify Chat · WidgetWhats · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
1
Open Page Rank 8+
11
1
Open Page Rank 7+
28
1
Open Page Rank 6+
44
1
Open Page Rank 5+
87
4
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Shopify Chat · WidgetWhats · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
18,334
57
United Kingdom
6,074
49
Canada
4,763
21
India
4,640
98
Australia
4,150
14
Germany
3,852
43
France
3,720
33
Italy
2,850
73
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Shopify Chat | WidgetWhats |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 1000 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.