Bugcrowd vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Bugcrowd · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
7
160
Open Page Rank 8+
45
2,971
Open Page Rank 7+
81
13,304
Open Page Rank 6+
93
27,590
Open Page Rank 5+
100
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
Bugcrowd · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
510
603,209
India
320
224,820
United Kingdom
286
207,765
Japan
186
199,902
France
215
176,039
Canada
300
160,997
Brazil
221
159,360
Spain
210
153,221
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Bugcrowd | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.5 s | 2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 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.