PayPal vs Square

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

PayPal · Square · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

PayPal · Square · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 223,702

1,577

Germany 96,088

41

United Kingdom 90,715

148

France 60,591

43

Canada 59,067

286

Italy 56,496

34

Australia 53,661

185

India 46,944

79

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All PayPal sites · All Square sites