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
158
Open Page Rank 8+
90
2,942
Open Page Rank 7+
337
12,840
Open Page Rank 6+
622
26,339
Open Page Rank 5+
957
47,961
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
2,229
521,768
India
1,421
193,784
United Kingdom
1,477
180,414
Japan
556
171,305
France
1,066
146,342
Brazil
790
142,702
Canada
1,144
138,004
Spain
952
138,105
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Detectify | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 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, 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.
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 |