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
66
603,209
India
58
224,820
United Kingdom
39
207,765
Japan
37
199,902
France
45
176,039
Canada
41
160,997
Brazil
34
159,360
Spain
35
153,221
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 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.
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 |