Really Simple SSL & Security vs reCAPTCHA

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

Top sites by authority

Really Simple SSL & Security · 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

Really Simple SSL & Security · reCAPTCHA · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 83,739

534,273

India 25,526

197,700

United Kingdom 29,953

181,539

Japan 36,223

172,940

Brazil 43,852

145,709

France 32,992

145,372

Spain 40,106

131,068

Italy 30,741

127,909

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, Aug 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 Really Simple SSL & Security sites · All reCAPTCHA sites