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
64
Open Page Rank 8+
2
769
Open Page Rank 7+
2
2,728
Open Page Rank 6+
3
5,244
Open Page Rank 5+
4
9,473
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
25
223,702
Germany
10
96,088
United Kingdom
15
90,715
France
10
60,591
Canada
11
59,067
Italy
14
56,496
Australia
9
53,661
India
15
46,944
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Amex Express Checkout | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 3 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.15 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1200 ms | 500 ms |
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.