ExpressionEngine vs Squarespace
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ExpressionEngine · Squarespace · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
5
20
Open Page Rank 8+
32
150
Open Page Rank 7+
86
324
Open Page Rank 6+
169
611
Open Page Rank 5+
385
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
ExpressionEngine · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,246
139,753
United Kingdom
1,035
24,032
Canada
605
18,524
Australia
373
15,176
India
463
6,768
Germany
359
5,927
France
271
5,084
New Zealand
128
4,707
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ExpressionEngine | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.