Bolt Payments vs PayPal
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Bolt Payments · PayPal · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
64
Open Page Rank 8+
0
769
Open Page Rank 7+
2
2,728
Open Page Rank 6+
2
5,244
Open Page Rank 5+
8
9,473
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Bolt Payments · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
151
223,702
Germany
22
96,088
United Kingdom
39
90,715
France
21
60,591
Canada
98
59,067
Italy
14
56,496
Australia
35
53,661
India
46
46,944
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Bolt Payments | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.03 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 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.
Bolt Payments to PayPal
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hardwood-lumber.com | May 2026 |