{"id":5312,"date":"2019-10-07T03:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2019-07-27T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T23:17:05","slug":"what-chat-app-is-best-for-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2019\/10\/07\/what-chat-app-is-best-for-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"What Chat App Is Best For Your Site?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems simple, just install code and you\u2019ve got a chat app. But not so fast. I am finding out from personal experience that not all chat apps are alike.<\/p>\n

I started out with Drift and still have that chat app on my website. What I found as I used the app was it slowed my website to a crawl for load time. I think much of this is the code is installed in the head tag as instructions state, but may be better installed before the ending body tag <\/body>.<\/p>\n

What is happening on my site is the page is taking so long to load and the navigation does not operate until the chat app function appears \u2013 I consider this very bad. Drift must have made a code change to the asynchronous code recently as the page load time was not an issue before but started about two weeks ago.\u00a0 As a result I have been actively looking for a website chat app replacement.<\/p>\n

I have tried three\u00a0Tawk.to<\/a>,\u00a0MyLiveChat<\/a>, and now Pure Chat. I am using Pure Chat on my website right now and so far I do like the free version. What I consider important for a website chat app are the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Easy to install<\/li>\n
  2. Able to configure colors<\/li>\n
  3. Has a rock solid mobile app<\/li>\n
  4. Does not impact page load speed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So far Tawk.To and\u00a0My Live Chat \u00a0were too complicated for my needs and cumbersome to use.\u00a0\u00a0Pure Chat<\/a>\u00a0has easy set up and I do like the mobile app which is simple to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Seems simple, just install code and you\u2019ve got a chat app. But not so fast. I am finding out from personal experience that not all chat apps are alike. I started out with Drift and still have that chat app on my website. What I found as I used the app was it slowed my website to a crawl for load time. I think much of this is the code is installed in the head tag as instructions state, but may be better installed before the ending body tag <\/body>. What is happening on my site is the page is taking so long to load and the navigation does not operate until the chat app function appears \u2013 I consider this very bad. Drift must have made a code change to the asynchronous code recently as the page load time was not an issue before but started about two weeks ago.\u00a0 As a result I have been actively looking for a website chat app replacement. I have tried three\u00a0Tawk.to,\u00a0MyLiveChat, and now Pure Chat. I am using Pure Chat on my website right now and so far I do like the free version. What I consider important for a website chat app are the following: Easy to install Able to configure colors Has a rock solid mobile app Does not impact page load speed So far Tawk.To and\u00a0My Live Chat \u00a0were too complicated for my needs and cumbersome to use.\u00a0\u00a0Pure Chat\u00a0has easy set up and I do like the mobile app which is simple to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,564,357,29,49],"tags":[528,631,181,417],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-internet-marketing-service","category-news-trends","category-bright-idea-tips","category-web-visibility","tag-chat-apps","tag-responsive-websites","tag-tips","tag-website-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}