Bitcoin vs PayPal

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

Top sites by authority

Bitcoin · 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

Bitcoin · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 379

218,474

Germany 99

93,191

United Kingdom 147

87,523

France 78

58,450

Canada 105

57,581

Italy 78

55,576

Australia 100

51,469

India 195

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 Bitcoin sites · All PayPal sites