ButterCMS vs Squarespace
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ButterCMS · Squarespace · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
20
Open Page Rank 8+
3
150
Open Page Rank 7+
8
324
Open Page Rank 6+
14
611
Open Page Rank 5+
28
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
ButterCMS · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
138
139,753
United Kingdom
63
24,032
Canada
63
18,524
Australia
37
15,176
India
75
6,768
Germany
40
5,927
France
29
5,084
New Zealand
19
4,707
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ButterCMS | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 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.