Apple Pay vs Payplug
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Apple Pay · Payplug · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
24
0
Open Page Rank 8+
230
0
Open Page Rank 7+
991
6
Open Page Rank 6+
2,151
10
Open Page Rank 5+
4,472
25
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Apple Pay · Payplug · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
188,852
140
United Kingdom
70,295
152
Canada
52,486
159
Australia
46,848
20
Germany
45,988
243
France
39,196
2,469
Italy
29,866
590
India
27,766
41
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Apple Pay | Payplug |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 1000 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Payplug to Apple Pay
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| le-gazon-synthetique.com | Aug 2026 |
| ecobaby.it | May 2026 |
| tatapaulette.com | Jan 2026 |
| mybookinou.com | Nov 2025 |