DDoS-Guard vs hCaptcha
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
DDoS-Guard · hCaptcha · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
35
Open Page Rank 8+
41
413
Open Page Rank 7+
199
1,093
Open Page Rank 6+
402
1,696
Open Page Rank 5+
720
2,528
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 · hCaptcha · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
66,731
1,870
United States
3,232
19,675
Germany
4,212
8,642
France
1,785
9,141
United Kingdom
2,377
8,484
India
1,203
6,784
Belarus
7,159
560
Netherlands
3,556
4,127
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DDoS-Guard | hCaptcha |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.
DDoS-Guard to hCaptcha
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| dreametech.com | Aug 2026 |
| vladbykov.ae | Mar 2026 |
| wrongcheats.ru | Feb 2026 |
| ronaldo-club.to | Jan 2026 |
hCaptcha to DDoS-Guard
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ronaldo-club.to | Jan 2026 |