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
279
Open Page Rank 8+
12
5,896
Open Page Rank 7+
13
30,057
Open Page Rank 6+
17
64,312
Open Page Rank 5+
17
119,764
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
116
1,338,613
United Kingdom
54
411,483
India
64
404,554
Germany
55
400,616
France
47
326,363
Brazil
49
292,843
Canada
58
290,713
Italy
47
229,495
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Alibaba Cloud Verification Code | HSTS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.