AWS WAF Captcha vs Really Simple SSL & Security
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
AWS WAF Captcha · Really Simple SSL & Security · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
26
Open Page Rank 8+
7
417
Open Page Rank 7+
12
1,316
Open Page Rank 6+
15
2,673
Open Page Rank 5+
20
5,436
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 · Really Simple SSL & Security · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
87
76,913
Spain
38
40,791
Brazil
35
39,350
Japan
38
34,787
France
45
30,313
Italy
36
30,232
United Kingdom
56
27,598
Germany
43
26,604
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | Really Simple SSL & Security |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1300 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
All AWS WAF Captcha sites · All Really Simple SSL & Security sites