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Sites using Google reCAPTCHA

653 sites via StackScope Wider Web Category: Security #3 of 46 in Security First seen: Jul 8, 2026 Last seen: Jul 15, 2026 Website: google.com

Bot-detection challenge service used to gate forms and logins against automated abuse.

Found via: Product Hunt 950 · Hacker News 29 · PeerPush 109 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 102 · StackScope Wider Web 653

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Last 7 days 0.6% -0.8pp
Most used with HSTS, Google Fonts, HTTP/3
Top product types Health, Developer Tools, E-commerce

Google reCAPTCHA has been detected on 653 launches we've crawled, with 653 of those in July 2026 (1.2% of the month's launches so far). The 7-day rolling share is 0.6%, down 0.8 percentage points from last week. Most recent detection was 3 days ago.

It's most commonly paired with HSTS, Google Fonts, and HTTP/3. By product type, the launches using it are most often Health (18%), Developer Tools (13%), and E-commerce (11%). By estimated origin, Canada leads (43%), ahead of India (16%). By domain ending, launches using it are 17.9 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .store domain.

What kind of products ship with Google reCAPTCHA

197 launches

Health
18.27%
Developer Tools
13.20%
E-commerce
10.66%
Content
9.64%
Marketing
9.64%
Finance
7.61%
Social
7.11%
Education
6.09%
AI
4.57%
Productivity
4.06%
Directory
3.55%
Games
2.54%
Design
2.03%
Crypto
1.02%

Countries that use Google reCAPTCHA

Estimated origin for 284 of 653 sites

  • Canada Canada 42.96%
  • India India 16.20%
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom 13.03%
  • New Zealand New Zealand 9.86%
  • South Korea South Korea 2.82%
  • United States United States 2.82%
  • Germany Germany 1.76%
  • Japan Japan 1.76%
  • Argentina Argentina 1.41%
  • Australia Australia 1.41%
  • China China 1.41%
  • Russia Russia 1.41%
  • Netherlands Netherlands 0.70%
  • United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0.35%

Share of new launches using Google reCAPTCHA

Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average.

0.6%
last 7 days
-0.8pp vs prior week
1.2%
July so far
653 of 56,138 sites
653
sites all time
since Jul 2026
Google reCAPTCHA daily detection trend 5% 2% 0% Jul 7 · 0 / 168 = 0.0% Jul 8 · 118 / 8542 = 1.4% Jul 9 · 246 / 16783 = 1.5% Jul 10 · 183 / 13050 = 1.4% Jul 11 · 48 / 6051 = 0.8% Jul 12 · 22 / 4412 = 0.5% Jul 13 · 16 / 3619 = 0.4% Jul 14 · 18 / 3244 = 0.6% Jul 15 · 2 / 200 = 1.0% Jul 16 · 0 / 51 = 0.0% Jul 17 · 0 / 18 = 0.0% (low-volume day)
Jul 7, 2026 11 days · 1 low-volume (grey) Jul 17, 2026

How StackScope detects technologies

Security leaders

Tool % of launches % of category
#1 HSTS 40.04% 91.33%
#2 Cloudflare Bot Management 8.07% 18.40%
#3 Google reCAPTCHA Current page 1.16% 2.65%
#4 DDoS-Guard 0.14% 0.33%
#5 Firebase App Check 0.06% 0.13%

Percentages show adoption among launches found via StackScope Wider Web: the share of all such launches, and of those using any Security tool. All 46 in Security →

Often used with

Tool Launches
HSTS 387
Google Fonts 300
HTTP/3 292
Google Analytics 264
Google Search Console 244

Tools most often detected on the same launches as Google reCAPTCHA.

653 sites across the wider web use Google reCAPTCHA

StackScope Wider Web counts newly launched sites that are not indie product launches. They shape the aggregate figures on this page but are never listed individually. How StackScope Discovery works · Back to launches

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