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 218,474

1,535

Germany 93,191

43

United Kingdom 87,523

149

France 58,450

44

Canada 57,581

271

Italy 55,576

37

Australia 51,469

179

India 45,648

82

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, 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.

All PayPal sites · All Square sites