Base vs Squarespace Commerce
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Base · Squarespace Commerce · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
21
Open Page Rank 8+
7
158
Open Page Rank 7+
14
348
Open Page Rank 6+
18
650
Open Page Rank 5+
28
1,417
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Base · Squarespace Commerce · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
31
157,241
United Kingdom
11
26,768
Canada
11
20,567
Australia
13
17,355
India
14
7,685
Germany
8
6,574
France
11
5,855
New Zealand
7
5,315
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Base | Squarespace Commerce |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 400 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.