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+
64
3
Open Page Rank 8+
769
36
Open Page Rank 7+
2,728
108
Open Page Rank 6+
5,244
183
Open Page Rank 5+
9,473
306
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
223,702
2,633
Germany
96,088
195
United Kingdom
90,715
322
France
60,591
180
Canada
59,067
464
Italy
56,496
170
Australia
53,661
203
India
46,944
483
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 | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 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 |