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+
23
0
Open Page Rank 8+
232
0
Open Page Rank 7+
998
6
Open Page Rank 6+
2,192
9
Open Page Rank 5+
4,575
23
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
189,872
136
United Kingdom
70,809
136
Canada
52,232
154
Germany
46,179
248
Australia
46,321
16
France
39,139
2,502
Italy
31,286
590
India
27,411
42
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 | 400 ms | 1000 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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 |
| sylvanianfamilies-boutique.fr | Aug 2026 |
| ecobaby.it | May 2026 |
| tatapaulette.com | Jan 2026 |
| mybookinou.com | Nov 2025 |