AWS WAF Captcha vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
AWS WAF Captcha · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
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 · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
76
521,768
India
69
193,784
United Kingdom
51
180,414
Japan
35
171,305
France
41
146,342
Brazil
30
142,702
Spain
36
138,105
Canada
45
138,004
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 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 reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| masterworks.com | Nov 2025 |