Shop Pay vs Square
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Shop Pay · Square · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
0
Open Page Rank 8+
192
0
Open Page Rank 7+
845
1
Open Page Rank 6+
1,877
1
Open Page Rank 5+
3,941
1
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Shop Pay · Square · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
196,281
1,827
United Kingdom
71,127
160
Canada
55,052
341
Australia
48,611
211
Germany
39,993
49
France
32,955
50
India
26,930
87
Italy
26,299
41
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Shop Pay | Square |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Square to Shop Pay
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| anthroapothecary.com | May 2026 |
| wheelerswildones.com | Nov 2025 |
| totalsoccer.us | Aug 2025 |