Asciinema vs YouTube
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Asciinema · YouTube · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
120
Open Page Rank 8+
11
2,055
Open Page Rank 7+
17
8,402
Open Page Rank 6+
25
16,604
Open Page Rank 5+
39
29,553
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Asciinema · YouTube · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
73
297,432
India
66
141,553
Japan
43
135,768
Brazil
40
93,424
United Kingdom
37
88,709
France
44
84,844
Germany
37
78,832
Canada
34
73,450
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Asciinema | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
YouTube to Asciinema
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| canine.sh | Dec 2025 |
| mensfeld.pl | Nov 2025 |