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 366

223,702

Germany 109

96,088

United Kingdom 147

90,715

France 81

60,591

Canada 108

59,067

Italy 80

56,496

Australia 104

53,661

India 214

46,944

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, 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.

All Bitcoin sites · All PayPal sites