hCaptcha vs reCAPTCHA

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

Top sites by authority

hCaptcha · 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

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

United States 19,742

603,209

India 7,046

224,820

United Kingdom 8,430

207,765

Japan 2,991

199,902

France 9,980

176,039

Canada 6,010

160,997

Brazil 5,973

159,360

Spain 4,964

153,221

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, 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.

All hCaptcha sites · All reCAPTCHA sites