Cybersource vs PayPal
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Cybersource · 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+
11
769
Open Page Rank 7+
23
2,728
Open Page Rank 6+
38
5,244
Open Page Rank 5+
59
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
Cybersource · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
433
223,702
Germany
73
96,088
United Kingdom
134
90,715
France
66
60,591
Canada
168
59,067
Italy
57
56,496
Australia
159
53,661
India
140
46,944
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Cybersource | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.7 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1400 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.
Cybersource to PayPal
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| dingotrails.com.au | May 2026 |
| audiovs.com.au | Feb 2026 |
| brightnite.com.au | Dec 2025 |
| eliteoutdoorgear.com.au | Dec 2025 |
PayPal to Cybersource
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| eliteoutdoorgear.com.au | Jul 2026 |
| craftstrom.com | Jun 2026 |