DDoS-Guard vs Friendly Captcha
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
DDoS-Guard · Friendly Captcha · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
2
Open Page Rank 8+
41
18
Open Page Rank 7+
192
74
Open Page Rank 6+
397
146
Open Page Rank 5+
716
277
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
DDoS-Guard · Friendly Captcha · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
65,971
60
Belarus
7,183
14
Germany
4,815
1,607
Kazakhstan
5,117
16
Netherlands
3,808
338
United States
3,558
331
Uzbekistan
2,830
17
Ukraine
2,749
73
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DDoS-Guard | Friendly Captcha |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 900 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.