DDoS-Guard vs reCAPTCHA

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

Top sites by authority

DDoS-Guard · 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

DDoS-Guard · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 5,239

603,209

India 1,325

224,820

United Kingdom 2,309

207,765

Japan 692

199,902

France 1,844

176,039

Canada 1,254

160,997

Brazil 677

159,360

Russia 73,946

80,685

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 DDoS-Guard sites · All reCAPTCHA sites