hCaptcha vs HSTS

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

Top sites by authority

hCaptcha · HSTS · 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

hCaptcha · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 19,593

1,348,640

Germany 8,518

403,347

United Kingdom 8,220

403,486

India 6,827

400,388

France 8,924

317,870

Brazil 5,585

290,538

Canada 5,763

289,821

Italy 5,413

219,709

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 hCaptcha sites · All HSTS sites