Google Pay vs PayPal

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

Top sites by authority

Google Pay · 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

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

United States 115,574

223,702

United Kingdom 49,044

90,715

Germany 33,054

96,088

Canada 31,464

59,067

Australia 30,267

53,661

France 18,088

60,591

Italy 20,884

56,496

India 16,928

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 Google Pay sites · All PayPal sites