Friendly Captcha vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Friendly Captcha · 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
Friendly Captcha · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
379
603,209
India
237
224,820
United Kingdom
300
207,765
Japan
85
199,902
France
500
176,039
Canada
165
160,997
Brazil
114
159,360
Spain
289
153,221
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Friendly Captcha | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 900 ms |
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.
Friendly Captcha to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ijsselgym.nl | Feb 2026 |
| myvictory.nl | Sep 2025 |
reCAPTCHA to Friendly Captcha
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| fuso-trucks.si | Jun 2026 |
| psychoanalyse-muenchen.de | Jun 2026 |
| dds-online.de | Apr 2026 |
| mbs-medizintechnik.com | Apr 2026 |
| draht-driller.de | Mar 2026 |
| diakonischeswerk-bonn.de | Mar 2026 |
| arcoplast-service.de | Mar 2026 |
| cit-estonski.info | Mar 2026 |
| fundacja-rodzinna.info.pl | Mar 2026 |
| rezydencja-podatkowa-malta.pl | Mar 2026 |
| avega.lu | Feb 2026 |
| rolltorheld.de | Feb 2026 |
| profielemente24.com | Feb 2026 |
| antegis.de | Dec 2025 |
| harzer-beton.com | Dec 2025 |
| aldi.hu | Sep 2025 |
| apajh04.fr | Aug 2025 |
| h-advisors.global | Aug 2025 |