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+
25
0
Open Page Rank 8+
231
0
Open Page Rank 7+
976
1
Open Page Rank 6+
2,135
1
Open Page Rank 5+
4,451
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
204,715
1,827
United Kingdom
76,078
160
Canada
57,717
341
Australia
50,714
211
Germany
48,853
49
France
42,935
50
Italy
31,320
41
India
30,859
87
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, Jun 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 |
|---|---|
| justcbdstores.com | Jun 2026 |
| anthroapothecary.com | May 2026 |
| wheelerswildones.com | Nov 2025 |
| totalsoccer.us | Aug 2025 |