reCAPTCHA vs Sqreen
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
reCAPTCHA · Sqreen · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
160
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,957
0
Open Page Rank 7+
13,189
0
Open Page Rank 6+
27,222
0
Open Page Rank 5+
49,830
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
reCAPTCHA · Sqreen · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
534,273
211
India
197,700
128
United Kingdom
181,539
116
Japan
172,940
65
Brazil
145,709
143
France
145,372
115
Canada
138,940
103
Spain
131,068
94
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | Sqreen |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 ms |
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.