PayPal vs Plaid
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
PayPal · Plaid · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
63
3
Open Page Rank 8+
741
35
Open Page Rank 7+
2,640
105
Open Page Rank 6+
5,121
179
Open Page Rank 5+
9,281
313
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
PayPal · Plaid · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
244,911
2,828
Germany
103,948
229
United Kingdom
99,171
369
France
67,377
239
Canada
66,032
530
Italy
60,310
195
Australia
58,692
220
India
51,868
556
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | PayPal | Plaid |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 800 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.
Plaid to PayPal
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| 2africa.org | Jun 2026 |
| bilt.com | Feb 2026 |