reCAPTCHA vs TruValidate
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
reCAPTCHA · TruValidate · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
158
5
Open Page Rank 8+
2,938
21
Open Page Rank 7+
12,990
58
Open Page Rank 6+
26,735
104
Open Page Rank 5+
48,935
185
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
reCAPTCHA · TruValidate · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
521,768
1,962
India
193,784
553
United Kingdom
180,414
508
Japan
171,305
208
France
146,342
346
Brazil
142,702
269
Canada
138,004
534
Spain
138,105
309
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | TruValidate |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
reCAPTCHA to TruValidate
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| walmartmoneycard.com | Jan 2026 |
TruValidate to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ledgeloungers.com | Aug 2026 |
| walmartmoneycard.com | Jan 2026 |
| winfest.de | Dec 2025 |
| bankcherokee.com | Dec 2025 |