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
63
Open Page Rank 8+
17
741
Open Page Rank 7+
60
2,640
Open Page Rank 6+
116
5,121
Open Page Rank 5+
186
9,281
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
1,072
244,911
Germany
528
103,948
United Kingdom
589
99,171
France
456
67,377
Canada
481
66,032
Italy
392
60,310
Australia
401
58,692
India
934
51,868
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Paddle | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 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 |