Amex Express Checkout vs PayPal
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Amex Express Checkout · PayPal · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
63
Open Page Rank 8+
2
741
Open Page Rank 7+
2
2,640
Open Page Rank 6+
3
5,121
Open Page Rank 5+
4
9,281
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Amex Express Checkout · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
30
244,911
Germany
13
103,948
United Kingdom
18
99,171
France
10
67,377
Canada
13
66,032
Italy
12
60,310
Australia
9
58,692
India
14
51,868
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Amex Express Checkout | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.9 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.1 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1200 ms | 500 ms |
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.