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
149
Open Page Rank 7+
8
330
Open Page Rank 6+
14
627
Open Page Rank 5+
28
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
ButterCMS · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
134
143,150
United Kingdom
67
23,970
Canada
67
18,720
Australia
36
15,718
India
77
6,990
Germany
39
6,176
France
35
5,041
New Zealand
15
4,752
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ButterCMS | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.