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
282
Open Page Rank 8+
13
5,897
Open Page Rank 7+
15
30,078
Open Page Rank 6+
18
64,413
Open Page Rank 5+
18
119,881
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
119
1,348,640
United Kingdom
58
403,486
Germany
61
403,347
India
63
400,388
France
51
317,870
Brazil
52
290,538
Canada
58
289,821
Italy
46
219,709
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 | 600 ms |
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.