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 34,722

534,273

India 13,037

197,700

United Kingdom 13,537

181,539

Brazil 39,032

145,709

Japan 11,091

172,940

France 11,095

145,372

Canada 9,796

138,940

Germany 11,755

127,948

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, Aug 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