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+
1
2
Open Page Rank 8+
48
17
Open Page Rank 7+
197
72
Open Page Rank 6+
407
140
Open Page Rank 5+
735
267
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
73,946
69
Belarus
8,363
14
Germany
6,351
1,773
Kazakhstan
6,077
17
United States
5,239
379
Netherlands
4,400
356
Uzbekistan
3,504
18
Ukraine
3,307
93
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DDoS-Guard | Friendly Captcha |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
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.