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
149
Open Page Rank 7+
89
330
Open Page Rank 6+
177
627
Open Page Rank 5+
396
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
ExpressionEngine · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,298
143,150
United Kingdom
1,000
23,970
Canada
619
18,720
Australia
390
15,718
India
473
6,990
Germany
389
6,176
France
277
5,041
New Zealand
131
4,752
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 | 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.