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+
2
284
Open Page Rank 8+
8
5,894
Open Page Rank 7+
15
30,000
Open Page Rank 6+
19
64,348
Open Page Rank 5+
23
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
AWS WAF Captcha · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
66
1,467,206
United Kingdom
39
450,618
Germany
35
441,210
India
58
429,462
France
45
366,415
Canada
41
324,872
Brazil
34
303,175
Italy
34
243,977
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | HSTS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.