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reCAPTCHA

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reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google designed to protect websites from spam and abuse. It uses advanced risk analysis techniques to tell humans and bots apart, offering various types of challenges including invisible checks and interactive puzzles to ensure user authenticity.

reCAPTCHA belongs toSecuritycategory.

509websites

use it — 19.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#2of 29

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 116)

193public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

Used on 19.9% of the websites we scan.

18.39% of all websites we track run reCAPTCHA▲ 0.06 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How reCAPTCHA sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

46PerformancePooraverage site: 5088AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8993Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 9% slower than the average site

reCAPTCHA sites
4.7 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most reCAPTCHA sites load in 3.4–7.6 s. Home page weight: 3.8 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 173 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services36%
  • Cloudflare21%
  • Fastly6%
  • Google Cloud5%
  • Other32%
United States 56%Canada 21%Germany 3%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software56%
Business Services14%
Software as a Service (SaaS)6%
Educational Resources5%

Share of 193 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

32% of graded sites pass

16of 50 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not reCAPTCHA. 50 public sites graded so far.

How reCAPTCHA sites are built

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with reCAPTCHA on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 509 reCAPTCHA sites that run the whole stack.

12 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

reCAPTCHA + OneTrust + Amazon CloudFront

5.5%28 of 509 sites
#2

reCAPTCHA + Bootstrap + cdnjs

4.9%25 of 509 sites
#3

reCAPTCHA + WordPress + cdnjs

4.7%24 of 509 sites
#4

reCAPTCHA + WordPress + Bootstrap + Yoast SEO

3.1%16 of 509 sites
#5

reCAPTCHA + Amazon CloudFront + Bootstrap

4.1%21 of 509 sites
#6

reCAPTCHA + Amazon CloudFront + cdnjs

4.1%21 of 509 sites
#7

reCAPTCHA + OneTrust + Bootstrap

3.5%18 of 509 sites
#8

reCAPTCHA + WordPress + Marko

3.3%17 of 509 sites
#9

reCAPTCHA + OneTrust + Contentful

3.1%16 of 509 sites
#10

reCAPTCHA + OneTrust + Marko

2.8%14 of 509 sites
#11

reCAPTCHA + WordPress + GSAP

2.8%14 of 509 sites
#12

reCAPTCHA + Amazon CloudFront + Contentful

2.4%12 of 509 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 509 reCAPTCHA sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager66%Google Analytics62%Facebook Pixel23%Linkedin Insight Tag19%OneTrust24%Microsoft Advertising19%DoubleClick Floodlight13%Yoast SEO12%
Tag managerAnalyticsCookie consentAdvertisingSearch visibility

Similar tools in its category

Security: 116 tools known, 29 seen in our scans

HSTS1,637 sitesAlternativeCloudflare Bot Management381 sitesAlternativeAkamai Bot Manager152 sitesAlternativeCloudflare Turnstile87 sitesAlternativeImperva46 sitesAlternativePerimeterX18 sitesAlternativehCaptcha16 sitesAlternativeDataDome15 sitesAlternativeClickCease22 sitesUsed together

How websites combine reCAPTCHA with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Integrates with another 79Complements another tool 60Overlaps with another 15Needs another tool 2

Questions about reCAPTCHA

How many websites use reCAPTCHA?
We found reCAPTCHA on 509 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (19.9%). 193 of them have a public status page.
What is reCAPTCHA often used with?
Among the websites we scan, reCAPTCHA is often found alongside MySQL (25.5% of its sites), Node.js (25.1% of its sites), WordPress (25% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to reCAPTCHA?
Other security tools we recognize include HSTS, Cloudflare Bot Management, Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare Turnstile.

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