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+
158
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,942
6
Open Page Rank 7+
12,840
17
Open Page Rank 6+
26,339
28
Open Page Rank 5+
47,961
44
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
521,768
227
India
193,784
88
United Kingdom
180,414
189
Japan
171,305
63
France
146,342
140
Brazil
142,702
48
Spain
138,105
92
Canada
138,004
67
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 | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| 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.
Variti to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| vitastandart.com | Sep 2026 |
| goboi.ru | Jan 2026 |