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+
160
4
Open Page Rank 8+
2,971
16
Open Page Rank 7+
13,304
56
Open Page Rank 6+
27,590
102
Open Page Rank 5+
50,540
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
603,209
2,218
India
224,820
630
United Kingdom
207,765
585
Japan
199,902
217
France
176,039
411
Canada
160,997
620
Brazil
159,360
291
Spain
153,221
344
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | TruValidate |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.3 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, 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.
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 |
| tourismhr.ca | Sep 2025 |
TruValidate to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| walmartmoneycard.com | Jan 2026 |
| bankcherokee.com | Dec 2025 |
| winfest.de | Dec 2025 |