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
534,273
1,354
India
197,700
204
United Kingdom
181,539
160
Japan
172,940
62
Brazil
145,709
102
France
145,372
84
Canada
138,940
187
Spain
131,068
82
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, 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 Very Good Security
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| annarbortacoking.com | Feb 2026 |
Very Good Security to reCAPTCHA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| texasdemocrats.org | Feb 2026 |