Is PayPal or Square more popular?

PayPal is used by more websites in our catalog: 6,439 use PayPal and 1,877 use Square.

Does PayPal or Square have higher-authority sites?

PayPal sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (PayPal: 25, Square: 8).

Is PayPal or Square growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, PayPal went from 0.83% to 0.73% of all tracked sites, while Square went from 0.22% to 0.21%. Square is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both PayPal and Square?

21 websites in our catalog use both PayPal and Square.

Where does this PayPal vs Square data come from?

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.

PayPal vs Square — Site Stats Database

PayPal vs Square

A side-by-side comparison of two payment processors, based on the 42,046 Payments sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	PayPal	Square
Websites	6,439	1,877
Market share	15%	4.5%
Share of top 10K sites	0.68%	0.15%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#3	#6

Median DR	25	8

Average DR	27	15

Median keywords	992	329

Median referring domains	329	68

Median domain age	14 yrs	7 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	66,743	76,689

Combined monthly traffic	429,759,976	143,945,676

discounttire.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords356,298
Referring Domains6,942
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,959,321
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
tcgplayer.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords534,734
Referring Domains19,103
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)21,710,744
Traffic Trend
Technology
budget.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords169,591
Referring Domains20,118
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,712,803
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
poshmark.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords3,080,047
Referring Domains34,854
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,567,827
Traffic Trend
Technology
paypal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords161,744
Referring Domains925,390
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,940,876
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
dsw.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords421,066
Referring Domains20,341
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,407,270
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
billyparisi.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords195,563
Referring Domains5,846
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,643,155
Traffic Trend
Technology
zales.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords185,768
Referring Domains9,009
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,415,132
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
jared.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords158,244
Referring Domains6,172
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,119,092
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPayPal
carparts.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords537,511
Referring Domains13,442
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,050,587
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
discounttire.com	English	72	356,298	6,942	29 yrs	24,959,321		PayPal

ulta.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords859,299
Referring Domains49,897
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)35,195,080
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquare
petsmart.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords528,037
Referring Domains20,803
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)22,276,272
Traffic Trend
Technology
stubhub.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords397,588
Referring Domains29,144
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)15,460,009
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquare
kia.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords122,993
Referring Domains47,526
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)8,744,682
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquare
balsamhill.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords119,450
Referring Domains5,692
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,852,576
Traffic Trend
Technology
shoecarnival.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords226,969
Referring Domains4,375
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,331,286
Traffic Trend
Technology
squareup.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords171,393
Referring Domains158,160
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,223,351
Traffic Trend
Technology
lanebryant.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords137,613
Referring Domains6,418
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,581,112
Traffic Trend
Technology
helzberg.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords125,168
Referring Domains4,488
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,241,184
Traffic Trend
Technology
cash.app
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords74,784
Referring Domains48,570
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,355,783
Traffic Trend
TechnologySquare