American Express vs PayPal

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

Top sites by authority

American Express · 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

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

United States 132,428

244,911

United Kingdom 48,948

99,171

Germany 33,630

103,948

Canada 35,300

66,032

France 28,473

67,377

Australia 31,410

58,692

Italy 21,346

60,310

India 22,084

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 American Express sites · All PayPal sites