AWS WAF Captcha vs HSTS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
AWS WAF Captcha · 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+
7
5,906
Open Page Rank 7+
12
30,134
Open Page Rank 6+
15
64,486
Open Page Rank 5+
20
120,212
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
AWS WAF Captcha · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
76
1,338,613
United Kingdom
51
411,483
India
69
404,554
Germany
39
400,616
France
41
326,363
Brazil
30
292,843
Canada
45
290,713
Italy
33
229,495
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | HSTS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
AWS WAF Captcha to HSTS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| go4worldbusiness.com | Jul 2026 |
HSTS to AWS WAF Captcha
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| prevu.com | Oct 2026 |