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
68
534,273
India
67
197,700
United Kingdom
43
181,539
Japan
32
172,940
Brazil
31
145,709
France
40
145,372
Canada
40
138,940
Spain
34
131,068
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 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, 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 reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| masterworks.com | Nov 2025 |