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+
2,957
1
Open Page Rank 7+
13,189
1
Open Page Rank 6+
27,222
2
Open Page Rank 5+
49,830
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
534,273
3
India
197,700
5
United Kingdom
181,539
2
Japan
172,940
1
Brazil
145,709
1
France
145,372
1
Canada
138,940
2
Spain
131,068
1
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | TrafficGuard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 3.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 1200 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.