Is AWS WAF Captcha or reCAPTCHA more popular?

reCAPTCHA is used by more websites in our catalog: 661 use AWS WAF Captcha and 131,825 use reCAPTCHA.

Does AWS WAF Captcha or reCAPTCHA have higher-authority sites?

AWS WAF Captcha sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS WAF Captcha: 34, reCAPTCHA: 27).

Is AWS WAF Captcha or reCAPTCHA growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS WAF Captcha went from 0.09% to 0.08% of all tracked sites, while reCAPTCHA went from 16% to 15%. AWS WAF Captcha is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both AWS WAF Captcha and reCAPTCHA?

1 websites in our catalog use both AWS WAF Captcha and reCAPTCHA.

Where does this AWS WAF Captcha vs reCAPTCHA data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

AWS WAF Captcha vs reCAPTCHA — Site Stats Database

AWS WAF Captcha vs reCAPTCHA

A side-by-side comparison of two captcha & bot-defense tools, based on the 146,814 CAPTCHA sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	AWS WAF Captcha	reCAPTCHA
Websites	661	131,825
Market share	0.45%	90%
Share of top 10K sites	0.29%	8.8%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#4	#1

Median DR	34	27

Average DR	39	29

Median keywords	1,974	928

Median referring domains	522	321

Median domain age	18 yrs	15 yrs

Average domain age	17 yrs	16 yrs

Average monthly traffic	4,341,085	65,186

Combined monthly traffic	2,869,456,949	8,593,161,336

imdb.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords12,598,022
Referring Domains947,689
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,387,444,775
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
mapquest.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords26,333,561
Referring Domains116,999
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)253,392,926
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
howstuffworks.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,841,369
Referring Domains190,101
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)40,987,675
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
guide.michelin.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords426,568
Referring Domains47,289
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,623,927
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
morningstar.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords590,706
Referring Domains86,260
Domain Age37 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)22,373,965
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
ncsu.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords774,707
Referring Domains123,047
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,038,787
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
ballotpedia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords621,957
Referring Domains55,450
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,728,632
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
rvtrader.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords146,632
Referring Domains11,194
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,010,805
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
careeronestop.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords169,063
Referring Domains24,928
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,168,570
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha
wayground.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords184,430
Referring Domains19,819
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,219,784
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAWS WAF Captcha

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
imdb.com	English	94	12,598,022	947,689	30 yrs	2,387,444,775		AWS WAF Captcha

spotify.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords7,485,298
Referring Domains1,649,815
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)505,668,332
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
walmart.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords22,196,316
Referring Domains287,795
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)430,824,067
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
dictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords3,387,790
Referring Domains129,246
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,622,664
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
vocabulary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords2,454,757
Referring Domains42,680
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)192,093,469
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
webmd.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords7,081,914
Referring Domains428,092
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)152,067,414
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
bestbuy.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords3,771,049
Referring Domains112,318
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)127,973,459
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
worldometers.info
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords472,275
Referring Domains82,483
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)113,278,446
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
ubereats.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords3,826,446
Referring Domains71,403
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)73,292,413
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
loveandlemons.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords566,210
Referring Domains32,708
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)50,996,712
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA
azlyrics.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords1,180,304
Referring Domains35,494
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)48,971,518
Traffic Trend
TechnologyreCAPTCHA