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 6,845

223,702

Germany 590

96,088

United Kingdom 1,034

90,715

Canada 2,295

59,067

France 550

60,591

Italy 425

56,496

Australia 776

53,661

India 1,331

46,944

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, 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.

All Affirm sites · All PayPal sites