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 9+
63
0
Open Page Rank 8+
741
0
Open Page Rank 7+
2,640
1
Open Page Rank 6+
5,121
1
Open Page Rank 5+
9,281
1
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
244,911
1,827
Germany
103,948
49
United Kingdom
99,171
160
France
67,377
50
Canada
66,032
341
Italy
60,310
41
Australia
58,692
211
India
51,868
87
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | PayPal | Square |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 600 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.
Square to PayPal
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| anthroapothecary.com | May 2026 |
| kathleenstroom.com | Mar 2026 |
| wheelerswildones.com | Nov 2025 |
| totalsoccer.us | Aug 2025 |