reCAPTCHA vs Variti
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
reCAPTCHA · Variti · 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
8
Open Page Rank 7+
13,304
22
Open Page Rank 6+
27,590
34
Open Page Rank 5+
50,540
51
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
reCAPTCHA · Variti · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
603,209
332
India
224,820
88
United Kingdom
207,765
183
Japan
199,902
61
France
176,039
137
Canada
160,997
96
Brazil
159,360
49
Spain
153,221
95
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | Variti |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 600 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.
Variti to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| goboi.ru | Jan 2026 |