PayFast vs PayPal
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
PayFast · PayPal · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
63
Open Page Rank 8+
0
741
Open Page Rank 7+
0
2,640
Open Page Rank 6+
0
5,121
Open Page Rank 5+
0
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
PayFast · PayPal · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
7
244,911
Germany
1
103,948
United Kingdom
2
99,171
France
1
67,377
Canada
1
66,032
Italy
1
60,310
Australia
1
58,692
India
7
51,868
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | PayFast | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.