Cloudflare Turnstile vs reCAPTCHA

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 33,179

603,209

India 12,563

224,820

United Kingdom 13,561

207,765

Japan 11,075

199,902

France 11,848

176,039

Brazil 12,672

159,360

Canada 9,731

160,997

Spain 8,514

153,221

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 Turnstile sites · All reCAPTCHA sites