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 9+
284
1
Open Page Rank 8+
5,894
4
Open Page Rank 7+
30,000
8
Open Page Rank 6+
64,348
12
Open Page Rank 5+
119,742
16
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
1,467,206
61
United Kingdom
450,618
50
Germany
441,210
64
India
429,462
33
France
366,415
45
Canada
324,872
37
Brazil
303,175
26
Italy
243,977
36
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | HSTS | Yandex SmartCaptcha |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 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.