BotDetect vs reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is used by more websites in our catalog: 591 use BotDetect and 131,825 use reCAPTCHA.

BotDetect sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (BotDetect: 51, reCAPTCHA: 27).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, BotDetect went from 0.08% to 0.07% of all tracked sites, while reCAPTCHA went from 16% to 15%. BotDetect is gaining ground faster in our index.

39 websites in our catalog use both BotDetect and reCAPTCHA.

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.