Google: Passkeys Log You In Much Faster Than Passwords (Trust Us)
Still unsure about passkeys, the tech industry’s latest attempt to kill the password? Google has released some rare data(Opens in a new window), showing that logging in with passkeys is much faster and efficient than typing in a password.
The data was collected in March and April, and compares successful login attempts from passkey adopters to traditional password users. It puts the average authentication success rate for passkey adopters at 63.8% versus 13.8% for traditional password users. This suggests consumers relying on the old-school login method often fail to sign in on the first try, perhaps because they forget or mistype the password.
Passkey users, on the other hand, often sign in on the first try, although Google didn't disclose why the passkey success rate isn't at 100%.
The data comes days after Google added passkeys as an official way to log in to Google accounts. Prior to this, the Chrome browser and Android OS supported passkeys as a sign-in method for third-party websites.
The Google data also shows that users signing in with passkeys often complete the process significantly faster than traditional password users. “On average, a user can successfully sign in within 14.9 seconds, while it typically takes twice as long to sign in with passwords (30.4 seconds),” the company said.
Google doesn’t mention how the company collected the stats, but it likely occurred through anonymized data collection via the Chrome browser and Android OS. The sample size was around 100 million users.
The other major benefit to passkeys is how the technology can stop account hijacking through password-stealing attempts, such as phishing emails or malware. That’s because passkeys ditch passwords entirely. Instead, the
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