Keybase vs reCAPTCHA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Keybase · reCAPTCHA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
160
Open Page Rank 8+
29
2,971
Open Page Rank 7+
98
13,304
Open Page Rank 6+
169
27,590
Open Page Rank 5+
281
50,540
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Keybase · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
705
603,209
India
406
224,820
United Kingdom
318
207,765
Japan
276
199,902
France
242
176,039
Canada
262
160,997
Brazil
250
159,360
Spain
186
153,221
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Keybase | reCAPTCHA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
reCAPTCHA to Keybase
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| anreiter.at | Mar 2026 |