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 19,593

534,273

India 6,827

197,700

United Kingdom 8,220

181,539

Japan 2,767

172,940

France 8,924

145,372

Brazil 5,585

145,709

Canada 5,763

138,940

Germany 8,518

127,948

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 reCAPTCHA sites