Ghost vs Squarespace
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Ghost · Squarespace · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
20
Open Page Rank 8+
35
150
Open Page Rank 7+
157
324
Open Page Rank 6+
294
611
Open Page Rank 5+
504
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
Ghost · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,184
139,753
United Kingdom
1,476
24,032
Canada
1,189
18,524
Australia
839
15,176
India
1,771
6,768
Germany
1,136
5,927
France
1,020
5,084
New Zealand
366
4,707
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Ghost | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 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.