Alibaba Cloud Verification Code vs HSTS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Alibaba Cloud Verification Code · HSTS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
284
Open Page Rank 8+
13
5,894
Open Page Rank 7+
15
30,000
Open Page Rank 6+
18
64,348
Open Page Rank 5+
18
119,742
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Alibaba Cloud Verification Code · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
140
1,467,206
United Kingdom
67
450,618
Germany
71
441,210
India
73
429,462
France
54
366,415
Canada
72
324,872
Brazil
56
303,175
Italy
54
243,977
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Alibaba Cloud Verification Code | HSTS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 ms |
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.