Cloudflare Bot Management vs reCAPTCHA

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Cloudflare Bot Management · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Cloudflare Bot Management · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 868,567

603,209

India 234,982

224,820

United Kingdom 240,816

207,765

Canada 196,014

160,997

Japan 152,768

199,902

Brazil 171,590

159,360

France 154,165

176,039

Germany 171,746

146,478

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Cloudflare Bot Management sites · All reCAPTCHA sites