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+
2,957
18
Open Page Rank 7+
13,189
56
Open Page Rank 6+
27,222
103
Open Page Rank 5+
49,830
187
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
534,273
1,972
India
197,700
558
United Kingdom
181,539
512
Japan
172,940
194
Brazil
145,709
269
France
145,372
344
Canada
138,940
562
Spain
131,068
303
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 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 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.
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 |