Paddle vs PayPal
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Paddle · PayPal · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
64
Open Page Rank 8+
14
769
Open Page Rank 7+
56
2,728
Open Page Rank 6+
114
5,244
Open Page Rank 5+
185
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
Paddle · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
970
223,702
Germany
441
96,088
United Kingdom
506
90,715
France
368
60,591
Canada
412
59,067
Italy
330
56,496
Australia
349
53,661
India
861
46,944
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Paddle | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.
Paddle to PayPal
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| soundtracker.com | Mar 2026 |
| legalhere.net | Feb 2026 |
PayPal to Paddle
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| xenon.bot | Sep 2025 |