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+
2,957
6
Open Page Rank 7+
13,189
17
Open Page Rank 6+
27,222
29
Open Page Rank 5+
49,830
45
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
534,273
246
India
197,700
73
United Kingdom
181,539
179
Japan
172,940
73
Brazil
145,709
51
France
145,372
107
Canada
138,940
64
Spain
131,068
88
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, 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.
Variti to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| goboi.ru | Jan 2026 |