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for their website.</p><p><strong>Lowest advisable difficulty factor is 5000.</strong></p><p>For instance, if it is normal for my website to get 2000 requests for
every 30 seconds, I will set a <ahref=/docs/terminology/cooldown-period>cool
first level of difficulty configuration will have a <ahref=/docs/terminology/visitor-threshold>visitor threshold</a> of 2000 with a
difficulty factor of 5000.</p><p>There are two modes to setting difficulty factor for your website on
mCaptcha:</p><h3id=easy-option>Easy option<ahref=#easy-optionclass=anchoraria-hidden=true>#</a></h3><p>Easy mode asks a few basic statistics about your website and generates a
website but it will be fine-tuned as mCaptcha sees more deployment.</p><p>Configuration generated by easy mode can be tweaked later using the
advance mode, as you become more familiar with how mCaptcha works.</p><figure><imgclass="img-fluid lazyload blur-up"data-sizes=autosrc=/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_20x0_resize_box_2.pngdata-srcset="/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_900x0_resize_box_2.png 900w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_800x0_resize_box_2.png 800w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_700x0_resize_box_2.png 700w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_600x0_resize_box_2.png 600w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_500x0_resize_box_2.png 500w"width=720height=452alt="new sitekey form in easy mode"><noscript><imgclass=img-fluidsizes=100vwsrcset="/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_900x0_resize_box_2.png 900w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_800x0_resize_box_2.png 800w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_700x0_resize_box_2.png 700w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_600x0_resize_box_2.png 600w,/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode_hu3f66189ea53484ac6603a2d78fa015c8_26636_500x0_resize_box_2.png 500w"src=/docs/webmasters/configuring-difficulty-factor/new-sitekey-easy-mode.pngwidth=720height=452alt="new sitekey form in easy mode"></noscript></figure><h3id=advance-option>Advance option<ahref=#advance-optionclass=anchoraria-hidden=true>#</a></h3><p>Advance mode gives the admin granular control over how mCaptcha behaves
