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+
2,971
0
Open Page Rank 7+
13,304
0
Open Page Rank 6+
27,590
0
Open Page Rank 5+
50,540
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
603,209
234
India
224,820
148
United Kingdom
207,765
143
Japan
199,902
74
France
176,039
137
Canada
160,997
118
Brazil
159,360
172
Spain
153,221
110
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, 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.