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+
4
20
Open Page Rank 8+
27
149
Open Page Rank 7+
70
330
Open Page Rank 6+
126
627
Open Page Rank 5+
210
1,377
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
1,333
143,150
United Kingdom
500
23,970
Canada
428
18,720
Australia
297
15,718
India
933
6,990
Germany
717
6,176
France
1,375
5,041
New Zealand
96
4,752
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 | 400 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.
Backdrop to Squarespace
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gangofyouths.com | Jul 2026 |
Squarespace to Backdrop
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| funkhaus.wien | Jan 2026 |