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
158
Open Page Rank 8+
7
2,938
Open Page Rank 7+
35
12,990
Open Page Rank 6+
53
26,735
Open Page Rank 5+
69
48,935
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
210
521,768
India
118
193,784
United Kingdom
101
180,414
Japan
185
171,305
France
135
146,342
Brazil
70
142,702
Spain
93
138,105
Canada
123
138,004
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 | 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.
Basic to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hoy-no-circula.com.mx | Jul 2026 |