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 120,725

223,702

United Kingdom 45,093

90,715

Germany 31,400

96,088

Canada 31,773

59,067

France 25,901

60,591

Australia 29,004

53,661

Italy 20,334

56,496

India 19,933

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 American Express sites · All PayPal sites