Backdrop vs Squarespace
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Backdrop · Squarespace · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
5
20
Open Page Rank 8+
31
150
Open Page Rank 7+
75
324
Open Page Rank 6+
131
611
Open Page Rank 5+
218
1,363
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Backdrop · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,379
139,753
United Kingdom
517
24,032
Canada
484
18,524
Australia
302
15,176
India
973
6,768
Germany
763
5,927
France
1,530
5,084
New Zealand
104
4,707
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Backdrop | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 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.
Backdrop to Squarespace
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gangofyouths.com | Jul 2026 |
Squarespace to Backdrop
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| funkhaus.wien | Jan 2026 |