Akamai Bot Manager vs reCAPTCHA

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Akamai Bot Manager · reCAPTCHA · 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

Akamai Bot Manager · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 13,044

534,273

India 3,534

197,700

United Kingdom 5,046

181,539

Japan 2,091

172,940

France 3,043

145,372

Brazil 2,310

145,709

Canada 4,352

138,940

Spain 2,932

131,068

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, Aug 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 Akamai Bot Manager sites · All reCAPTCHA sites