reCAPTCHA vs Solve Media

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

Detections for Solve Media end in Sep 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

reCAPTCHA · Solve Media · 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

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

United States 534,273

13

India 197,700

13

United Kingdom 181,539

9

Japan 172,940

8

Brazil 145,709

9

France 145,372

9

Canada 138,940

8

Spain 131,068

10

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.

All reCAPTCHA sites · All Solve Media sites