A side-by-side comparison of two payment processors, based on the 42,046 Payments sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | Cybersource | PayPal |
|---|---|---|
| Websites | 187 | 6,439 |
| Market share | 0.44% | 15% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 0.13% | 0.68% |
| Share of top 100K sites |
| 0.07% |
| 0.64% |
| Rank | #17 | #3 |
|---|
| Median DR | 53 | 25 |
|---|
| Average DR | 50 | 27 |
|---|
| Median keywords | 3,066 | 992 |
|---|
| Median referring domains | 817 | 329 |
|---|
| Median domain age | 25 yrs | 14 yrs |
|---|
| Average domain age | 23 yrs | 15 yrs |
|---|
| Average monthly traffic | 302,615 | 66,743 |
|---|
| Combined monthly traffic | 56,588,958 | 429,759,976 |
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Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
187 websites · rank #17
Top industries
Top markets
6,439 websites · rank #3
Top industries
Top markets
PayPal is used by more websites in our catalog: 187 use Cybersource and 6,439 use PayPal.
Cybersource sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cybersource: 53, PayPal: 25).
Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cybersource went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while PayPal went from 0.83% to 0.73%. Cybersource is gaining ground faster in our index.
18 websites in our catalog use both Cybersource and PayPal.
Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "Cybersource vs PayPal." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/payment-processors/compare/cybersource-vs-paypal
Site Stats Database tracks 187 websites using Cybersource and 6,439 using PayPal, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every payment processor by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 78 |
| 419,857 |
| 19,530 |
| 27 yrs |
| 5,702,282 |
| Cybersource |
| jcrew.com | English | 80 | 333,481 | 42,224 | 31 yrs | 5,555,460 | Cybersource |
| nflshop.com | English | 72 | 122,263 | 7,976 | 27 yrs | 3,012,846 | Cybersource |
| dolcegabbana.com | English | 78 | 12,639 | 22,768 | 30 yrs | 2,952,423 | Cybersource |
| lids.com | English | 69 | 220,797 | 7,205 | 27 yrs | 2,523,436 | Cybersource |
| mitchellandness.com | English | 64 | 123,833 | 4,615 | 26 yrs | 2,278,708 | Cybersource |
| pgatoursuperstore.com | English | 66 | 130,826 | 5,069 | 21 yrs | 2,195,504 | Cybersource |
| baggallini.com | English | 58 | 15,679 | 2,116 | 27 yrs | 1,627,374 | Cybersource |
| store.nba.com | English | 90 | 68,576 | 5,112 | 31 yrs | 1,468,362 | Cybersource |
| English |
| 82 |
| 534,734 |
| 19,103 |
| 21 yrs |
| 21,710,744 |
| PayPal |
| budget.com | English | 78 | 169,591 | 20,118 | 31 yrs | 19,712,803 | PayPal |
| poshmark.com | English | 84 | 3,080,047 | 34,854 | 15 yrs | 11,567,827 | PayPal |
| paypal.com | English | 95 | 161,744 | 925,390 | 26 yrs | 10,940,876 | PayPal |
| dsw.com | English | 76 | 421,066 | 20,341 | 31 yrs | 9,407,270 | PayPal |
| billyparisi.com | English | 61 | 195,563 | 5,846 | 16 yrs | 7,643,155 | PayPal |
| zales.com | English | 71 | 185,768 | 9,009 | 30 yrs | 7,415,132 | PayPal |
| jared.com | English | 66 | 158,244 | 6,172 | 31 yrs | 7,119,092 | PayPal |
| carparts.com | English | 73 | 537,511 | 13,442 | 27 yrs | 6,050,587 | PayPal |