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 15,223

603,209

India 3,999

224,820

United Kingdom 5,674

207,765

Japan 2,396

199,902

France 3,547

176,039

Canada 4,910

160,997

Brazil 2,541

159,360

Spain 3,291

153,221

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, Jun 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