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Google reCAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA in each crawled group, and in the wider sample. Developer Tools.

GroupCrawledRunning Google reCAPTCHAShare
Inc 5000 (2026) 4,886 1,338 27.4%
Y Combinator companies 5,386 408 7.6%
Fortune 500 472 61 12.9%
Unicorns 1,000 140 14.0%
SaaS companies 8,173 465 5.7%
Tranco top 10,000 1,572 129 8.2%
Wider sample 8,291 431 5.2%

Group rows come from rendered homepage crawls; the wider sample is a plain fetch, so it undercounts tools a tag manager injects after the page loads. <5 means fewer than 5 crawled domains in that group. Method · Developer Tools across all groups · Google reCAPTCHA API script or its rendered widget container.

Detected by: script www.google.com/recaptcha html g-recaptcha

Wider sample

Google reCAPTCHA was detected on 431 of 8,291 company websites drawn from Crunchbase company records, companies with 11 to 1,000 employees. The cuts below divide by each segment's own crawled base.

By industry

IndustryCrawledRunning Google reCAPTCHAShare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1,631 74 4.5%
Financial Services 548 29 5.3%
Biotechnology 521 22 4.2%
Information Technology 503 21 4.2%
Health Care 420 19 4.5%
Apps 395 16 4.1%
Data and Analytics 373 25 6.7%
Commerce and Shopping 347 10 2.9%
Administrative Services 344 19 5.5%
Energy 294 23 7.8%

By employee size band

Size bandCrawledRunning Google reCAPTCHAShare
11-50 6,249 324 5.2%
51-200 2,042 107 5.2%

By country

CountryCrawledRunning Google reCAPTCHAShare
United States 5,475 255 4.7%
United Kingdom 803 39 4.9%
Canada 480 37 7.7%
Germany 430 23 5.3%
France 422 36 8.5%
Australia 212 15 7.1%
Netherlands 146 8 5.5%
Sweden 84 7 8.3%
Denmark 75 5 6.7%
Finland 68 2 2.9%

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Installmap, Google reCAPTCHA adoption, crawl of 2026-09-03, https://installmap.com/tools/recaptcha.

Canonical URL
https://installmap.com/tools/recaptcha
Denominator
431 of 8,291 crawled company websites in the wider sample, a share of 5.2%

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