microCMS vs Squarespace
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
microCMS · Squarespace · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
21
Open Page Rank 8+
17
148
Open Page Rank 7+
55
319
Open Page Rank 6+
108
600
Open Page Rank 5+
183
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
microCMS · Squarespace · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
143
139,753
United Kingdom
58
24,032
Canada
62
18,524
Australia
61
15,176
India
72
6,768
Germany
46
5,927
France
55
5,084
New Zealand
25
4,707
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | microCMS | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 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.