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+
62
3
Open Page Rank 8+
753
34
Open Page Rank 7+
2,655
100
Open Page Rank 6+
5,111
171
Open Page Rank 5+
9,194
291
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
218,474
2,677
Germany
93,191
185
United Kingdom
87,523
329
France
58,450
180
Canada
57,581
452
Italy
55,576
178
Australia
51,469
211
India
45,648
491
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | PayPal | Plaid |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 700 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.
Plaid to PayPal
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| clemta.com | Sep 2026 |
| synergisticit.com | Sep 2026 |
| 2africa.org | Jun 2026 |
| bilt.com | Feb 2026 |