reCAPTCHA vs TrafficGuard
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
reCAPTCHA · TrafficGuard · 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
1
Open Page Rank 7+
13,304
1
Open Page Rank 6+
27,590
2
Open Page Rank 5+
50,540
2
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
reCAPTCHA · TrafficGuard · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
603,209
4
India
224,820
4
United Kingdom
207,765
2
Japan
199,902
1
France
176,039
2
Canada
160,997
3
Brazil
159,360
1
Spain
153,221
1
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | TrafficGuard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 3.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 87 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 900 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.