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+
22
0
Open Page Rank 8+
195
0
Open Page Rank 7+
856
1
Open Page Rank 6+
1,885
1
Open Page Rank 5+
3,959
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
181,162
1,577
United Kingdom
65,633
148
Canada
50,109
286
Australia
44,843
185
Germany
37,761
41
France
30,289
43
Italy
25,175
34
India
24,266
79
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 | 500 ms | 600 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| gurtons.com | Aug 2026 |
| anthroapothecary.com | May 2026 |
| wheelerswildones.com | Nov 2025 |