reCAPTCHA v3 14K requests but only a handful of submissions?

We have Google reCAPTCHA added to CF7. Looking at our reCAPTCHA admin panel, there were over 14,000 requests in the last 90 days. Of which, 18% were deemed suspicious. If we summise that 80% of the requests were genuine, that equates to 11,200 genuine submissions presumably. However, we only actually have a handful of contact form submissions for this period.

What is causing the inflated numbers? The traffic is labelled “homepage” and from what I can see in the code, this relates to a label CF7 is creating when the script and its settings are output on every page:

<script type="text/javascript" id="wpcf7-recaptcha-js-extra">
/* <![CDATA[ */
var wpcf7_recaptcha = {"sitekey":"x","actions":{"homepage":"homepage","contactform":"contactform"}};
/* ]]> */
</script>

The concern is primarily that Google will charge for >10K assessments per month, and I need to understand why our request figures are so high in the first place.

• This topic was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by jamieburchell.