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
2,971
Open Page Rank 7+
39
13,304
Open Page Rank 6+
55
27,590
Open Page Rank 5+
71
50,540
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
233
603,209
India
123
224,820
United Kingdom
116
207,765
Japan
202
199,902
France
154
176,039
Canada
141
160,997
Brazil
78
159,360
Spain
103
153,221
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Basic | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 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, 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.