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 97,418

603,209

India 30,245

224,820

United Kingdom 35,181

207,765

Japan 42,353

199,902

France 40,734

176,039

Brazil 48,788

159,360

Spain 47,706

153,221

Italy 36,640

149,703

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, 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.

All Really Simple SSL & Security sites · All reCAPTCHA sites