Basic vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Basic · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
160
Open Page Rank 8+
9
2,957
Open Page Rank 7+
38
13,189
Open Page Rank 6+
55
27,222
Open Page Rank 5+
72
49,830
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Basic · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
212
534,273
India
124
197,700
United Kingdom
99
181,539
Japan
184
172,940
Brazil
64
145,709
France
128
145,372
Canada
116
138,940
Spain
94
131,068
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Basic | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.
Basic to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hoy-no-circula.com.mx | Jul 2026 |