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
534,273
88
India
197,700
32
United Kingdom
181,539
77
Japan
172,940
35
Brazil
145,709
22
France
145,372
53
Canada
138,940
27
Spain
131,068
38
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, 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 Yandex SmartCaptcha
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| lighthousecafe.ru | Aug 2026 |