Apple Pay vs Square
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Apple Pay · Square · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
24
0
Open Page Rank 8+
232
0
Open Page Rank 7+
987
1
Open Page Rank 6+
2,151
1
Open Page Rank 5+
4,492
1
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Apple Pay · Square · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
189,872
1,535
United Kingdom
70,809
149
Canada
52,232
271
Australia
46,321
179
Germany
46,179
43
France
39,139
44
Italy
31,286
37
India
27,411
82
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Apple Pay | Square |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms | 600 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Square to Apple Pay
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gurtons.com | Aug 2026 |
| justcbdstores.com | Jun 2026 |
| anthroapothecary.com | May 2026 |
| wheelerswildones.com | Nov 2025 |