reCAPTCHA vs Yandex SmartCaptcha
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
reCAPTCHA · Yandex SmartCaptcha · 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 · Yandex SmartCaptcha · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
521,768
92
India
193,784
35
United Kingdom
180,414
85
Japan
171,305
34
France
146,342
66
Brazil
142,702
26
Spain
138,105
46
Canada
138,004
28
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | Yandex SmartCaptcha |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 1100 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.
reCAPTCHA to Yandex SmartCaptcha
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| backorder.ru | Oct 2026 |
| lighthousecafe.ru | Aug 2026 |