authorize.net vs PayPal

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

authorize.net · 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

authorize.net · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 6,525

218,474

Germany 395

93,191

United Kingdom 655

87,523

France 368

58,450

Canada 1,192

57,581

Italy 340

55,576

Australia 628

51,469

India 762

45,648

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, 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.

All authorize.net sites · All PayPal sites