Detectify vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Detectify · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
12
160
Open Page Rank 8+
91
2,957
Open Page Rank 7+
341
13,189
Open Page Rank 6+
629
27,222
Open Page Rank 5+
967
49,830
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Detectify · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,242
534,273
India
1,444
197,700
United Kingdom
1,456
181,539
Japan
545
172,940
Brazil
785
145,709
France
1,046
145,372
Canada
1,135
138,940
Spain
915
131,068
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Detectify | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Detectify to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ctm.com | Jun 2026 |
| prozorro.gov.ua | Feb 2026 |
reCAPTCHA to Detectify
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| raenest.com | Mar 2026 |
| kaddio.com | Feb 2026 |
| radicasys.com | Nov 2025 |
| ekosia.fr | Oct 2025 |
| gofishdigital.com | Sep 2025 |