Human Presence vs reCAPTCHA

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

Detections for Human Presence end in Dec 2025. The fingerprint catalog behind our crawls no longer carries that technology as its own entry, usually because it was retired or split into more specific ones, so its figure is the last recorded and is not directly comparable with a currently tracked technology.

Top sites by authority

Human Presence · 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

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

United States 33

521,768

India 8

193,784

United Kingdom 10

180,414

Japan 4

171,305

France 6

146,342

Brazil 2

142,702

Spain 4

138,105

Canada 12

138,004

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 Human Presence sites · All reCAPTCHA sites