reCAPTCHA vs Very Good Security
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
reCAPTCHA · Very Good Security · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
reCAPTCHA · Very Good Security · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
603,209
1,355
India
224,820
224
United Kingdom
207,765
187
Japan
199,902
85
France
176,039
117
Canada
160,997
206
Brazil
159,360
104
Spain
153,221
106
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | Very Good Security |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 900 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 Very Good Security
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| annarbortacoking.com | Feb 2026 |
Very Good Security to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| texasdemocrats.org | Feb 2026 |