NexusPIPE vs reCAPTCHA

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

Detections for NexusPIPE end in Feb 2024. 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

NexusPIPE · 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

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

United States 5

521,768

India 1

193,784

United Kingdom 2

180,414

Japan 1

171,305

France 2

146,342

Brazil 4

142,702

Spain 1

138,105

Canada 1

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.

All NexusPIPE sites · All reCAPTCHA sites