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PayPal vs Visa

PayPal is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 2,736 websites against 723 for Visa, and 509 sites use both. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.

PayPal
2,736
Visa
723

PayPal

PayPal is an online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.

Indexed sites
2,736
Share of Payment processors
38%

Well-known sites using it

All 2,736 sites

Visa

Indexed sites
723
Share of Payment processors
10%

Well-known sites using it

All 723 sites

Used together

509 sites run both PayPal and Visa. That is 70% of the sites using Visa, the smaller of the two.

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