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
282
Open Page Rank 8+
6
5,897
Open Page Rank 7+
13
30,078
Open Page Rank 6+
15
64,413
Open Page Rank 5+
20
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
AWS WAF Captcha · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
68
1,348,640
United Kingdom
43
403,486
Germany
35
403,347
India
67
400,388
France
40
317,870
Brazil
31
290,538
Canada
40
289,821
Italy
34
219,709
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | HSTS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.
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 |