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 115,973

218,474

United Kingdom 48,872

87,523

Germany 33,232

93,191

Canada 31,240

57,581

Australia 29,971

51,469

Italy 21,811

55,576

France 17,814

58,450

India 16,707

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 Google Pay sites · All PayPal sites