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
149
Open Page Rank 7+
158
330
Open Page Rank 6+
296
627
Open Page Rank 5+
507
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
Ghost · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,195
143,150
United Kingdom
1,465
23,970
Canada
1,176
18,720
Australia
873
15,718
India
1,774
6,990
Germany
1,126
6,176
France
1,012
5,041
New Zealand
371
4,752
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 | 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.