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+
5
62
Open Page Rank 8+
18
753
Open Page Rank 7+
62
2,655
Open Page Rank 6+
119
5,111
Open Page Rank 5+
195
9,194
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
999
218,474
Germany
463
93,191
United Kingdom
533
87,523
France
403
58,450
Canada
439
57,581
Italy
366
55,576
Australia
360
51,469
India
837
45,648
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Paddle | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 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, 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.
Paddle to PayPal
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| soundtracker.com | Mar 2026 |
| legalhere.net | Feb 2026 |