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 9,167

534,273

India 2,057

197,700

United Kingdom 2,217

181,539

Japan 1,078

172,940

France 2,025

145,372

Brazil 1,269

145,709

Canada 2,116

138,940

Spain 1,815

131,068

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 DataDome sites · All reCAPTCHA sites