CoinHive Captcha vs DDoS-Guard
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CoinHive Captcha · DDoS-Guard · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 8+
0
41
Open Page Rank 7+
0
192
Open Page Rank 6+
0
397
Open Page Rank 5+
0
716
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CoinHive Captcha · DDoS-Guard · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
2
65,971
Belarus
2
7,183
Kazakhstan
2
5,117
Germany
2
4,815
Netherlands
2
3,808
United States
0
3,558
Uzbekistan
0
2,830
Ukraine
0
2,749
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CoinHive Captcha | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 600 ms |
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.