CMS Made Simple vs Squarespace
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CMS Made Simple · Squarespace · 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+
11
148
Open Page Rank 7+
21
319
Open Page Rank 6+
26
600
Open Page Rank 5+
35
1,355
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CMS Made Simple · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
178
139,753
United Kingdom
102
24,032
Canada
77
18,524
Australia
28
15,176
India
57
6,768
Germany
194
5,927
France
304
5,084
New Zealand
18
4,707
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CMS Made Simple | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.