Captch Me vs HSTS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Captch Me · HSTS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
284
Open Page Rank 8+
0
5,894
Open Page Rank 7+
0
30,000
Open Page Rank 6+
0
64,348
Open Page Rank 5+
0
119,742
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Captch Me · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2
1,467,206
United Kingdom
1
450,618
Germany
2
441,210
India
1
429,462
France
3
366,415
Canada
1
324,872
Brazil
1
303,175
Italy
2
243,977
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Captch Me | HSTS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.7 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 112 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 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.