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+
230
0
Open Page Rank 7+
991
1
Open Page Rank 6+
2,151
1
Open Page Rank 5+
4,472
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
188,852
1,577
United Kingdom
70,295
148
Canada
52,486
286
Australia
46,848
185
Germany
45,988
41
France
39,196
43
Italy
29,866
34
India
27,766
79
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 | 500 ms | 600 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.
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 |