Google reCAPTCHA on new websites

1. About 1 in 55 websites that went live in the last 30 days use Google reCAPTCHA (1.8%).^[1]
2. It is the third most common security service on new sites. HSTS appears on about 20 times as many.
3. Four in ten new Google reCAPTCHA sites also use jQuery.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Google reCAPTCHA, since 10 September.

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category	Bar
1	–	HSTS	47.4%	87.5%
2	–	Cloudflare Bot Management	13.7%	25.2%
3	–	Google reCAPTCHA	1.9%	3.5%
4	▲1	Anubis	0.1%	0.2%
5	▼2	DDoS-Guard	0.1%	0.2%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Security tool. Google reCAPTCHA is typically used alongside HSTS rather than instead of it. All 399 in Security

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
Squarespace	31,134	18x
Modernizr	36,140	13x
Google Analytics	40,914	3.5x
Google Tag Manager	41,103	3.1x
jQuery	49,366	3.0x

Tools that turn up far more often on Google reCAPTCHA sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

5,861 of the 114,786 sites using Google reCAPTCHA are product launches we list individually. The other 108,925 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site	Found	Also detected
Licitai | Mais licitações, mais contratos licitai.dev	Oct 20
Musairec — a recorder that understands your song ideas about.musairec.app · Content	Oct 20
Frametastic Studio | Free Image Compressor & Creator Tools frametasticstudio.com · Design	Oct 19
Fidava — toda a gestão do seu negócio num só ecrã fidava-pt.com · France	Oct 19
HiringSynth | Social network robot, cobot e agenti AI hiringsynth.com	Oct 19
TrailTap | Tap the trail. Discover what's next. trailtap.uk · United Kingdom	Oct 19
Property Pencil — A better way to underwrite rental properties. propertypencil.com · Finance	Oct 19
PaperScorer: Submit a Paper paperscorer-ai.com · Productivity	Oct 19
Dyalex · AWS for drug discovery dyalex.com	Oct 19
Remplacements infirmiers Martinique | IDELCONNECT idel-connect.app · France	Oct 19
AscensosApp Vortex - Transforma tu carrera profesional ascensosapp.com	Oct 19
OnePocketLab — A tunnel to limitless learning onepocketlab.com · Education	Oct 19

Showing the most recent 12 of 5,861.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 114,786 sites using Google reCAPTCHA, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
3. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.