Asciinema vs MediaElement.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Asciinema · MediaElement.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
53
Open Page Rank 8+
8
763
Open Page Rank 7+
15
2,431
Open Page Rank 6+
23
4,262
Open Page Rank 5+
36
7,297
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Asciinema · MediaElement.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
67
99,554
Germany
35
34,501
Italy
28
31,625
Spain
28
29,729
India
57
27,751
France
32
27,583
United Kingdom
35
27,401
Canada
31
21,548
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Asciinema | MediaElement.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 37 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 1200 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.