Shopify vs Square Online
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Shopify · Square Online · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
36
1
Open Page Rank 8+
361
2
Open Page Rank 7+
1,434
10
Open Page Rank 6+
3,004
20
Open Page Rank 5+
6,078
30
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Shopify · Square Online · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
233,179
12,702
United Kingdom
83,178
1,006
India
76,557
107
Canada
65,017
1,939
Australia
55,351
1,446
Germany
56,631
42
France
48,734
92
Italy
35,950
30
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Shopify | Square Online |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 3.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.8 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 800 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 Online to Shopify
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gurtons.com | Aug 2026 |