Square vs Visa
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Square · Visa · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
13
Open Page Rank 8+
0
146
Open Page Rank 7+
1
520
Open Page Rank 6+
1
1,052
Open Page Rank 5+
1
2,068
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Square · Visa · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,577
124,674
United Kingdom
148
48,897
Germany
41
35,257
Canada
286
34,451
Australia
185
31,989
France
43
28,563
Italy
34
22,223
India
79
21,640
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Square | Visa |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 500 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 Visa
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gurtons.com | Aug 2026 |
| justcbdstores.com | Jun 2026 |