🆚 Google URL Shortener vs. KeyCAPTCHA
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is much more popular than KeyCAPTCHA.
- 🌍 Google URL Shortener is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ KeyCAPTCHA is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google URL Shortener
KeyCAPTCHAType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
Google URL Shortener is a deprecated link service from Google.
KeyCAPTCHA was a jigsaw puzzle captcha service with plugins for 19 popular content management systems. It operated from 2010 until its shutdown in September 2025.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Russia
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Magnetic CAPTCHA$2+/month
Personal CAPTCHA$2+/month
M+ CAPTCHA$2+/month
Unbranded$2+/month
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 42,631 times more popular than KeyCAPTCHA.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than KeyCAPTCHA in all countries.
United States
Japan
Spain
Australia
Germany
India
Italy
Brazil
United Kingdom
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Paraguay in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than KeyCAPTCHA in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Real Estate
Sports
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
AddThis
Messenger Customer Chat
Skype
Google Funding Choices🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.