Friendly Captcha vs Really Simple SSL & Security

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

Top sites by authority

Friendly Captcha · Really Simple SSL & Security · 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

Friendly Captcha · Really Simple SSL & Security · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 331

83,739

Brazil 102

43,852

Spain 254

40,106

Japan 82

36,223

France 416

32,992

Italy 1,295

30,741

Germany 1,607

28,990

United Kingdom 263

29,953

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, 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.

All Friendly Captcha sites · All Really Simple SSL & Security sites