HSTS vs Yandex SmartCaptcha

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

Top sites by authority

HSTS · Yandex SmartCaptcha · 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

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

United States 1,338,613

92

United Kingdom 411,483

85

India 404,554

35

Germany 400,616

102

France 326,363

66

Brazil 292,843

26

Canada 290,713

28

Italy 229,495

41

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, Sep 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 HSTS sites · All Yandex SmartCaptcha sites