DDoS-Guard vs Yandex SmartCaptcha
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
DDoS-Guard · Yandex SmartCaptcha · 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 · Yandex SmartCaptcha · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
64,873
335
Belarus
7,022
95
Kazakhstan
4,857
90
Germany
4,114
101
Netherlands
3,421
97
United States
3,257
88
Uzbekistan
2,628
75
Ukraine
2,582
66
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DDoS-Guard | Yandex SmartCaptcha |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Oct 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 Yandex SmartCaptcha
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| realistbank.ru | Jul 2026 |
Yandex SmartCaptcha to DDoS-Guard
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| mydruzhim.ru | Dec 2025 |