DataDome vs reCAPTCHA

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

Top sites by authority

DataDome · 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

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

United States 9,512

603,209

India 2,015

224,820

United Kingdom 2,232

207,765

Japan 1,114

199,902

France 2,173

176,039

Canada 2,057

160,997

Brazil 1,241

159,360

Spain 1,869

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 DataDome sites · All reCAPTCHA sites