Affirm vs PayPal

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Affirm · PayPal · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Affirm · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 7,715

244,911

Germany 648

103,948

United Kingdom 1,181

99,171

Canada 2,634

66,032

France 669

67,377

Italy 475

60,310

Australia 870

58,692

India 1,511

51,868

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All Affirm sites · All PayPal sites