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 9+
160
1
Open Page Rank 8+
2,971
4
Open Page Rank 7+
13,304
8
Open Page Rank 6+
27,590
12
Open Page Rank 5+
50,540
16
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
603,209
61
India
224,820
33
United Kingdom
207,765
50
Japan
199,902
29
France
176,039
45
Canada
160,997
37
Brazil
159,360
26
Spain
153,221
34
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | reCAPTCHA | Yandex SmartCaptcha |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 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.