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+
1
119
Open Page Rank 8+
8
2,028
Open Page Rank 7+
15
8,276
Open Page Rank 6+
23
16,262
Open Page Rank 5+
36
28,851
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
67
263,095
India
57
123,969
Japan
34
117,529
Brazil
35
85,566
United Kingdom
35
76,855
France
32
70,187
Germany
35
68,819
Canada
31
63,317
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Asciinema | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 37 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 900 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.
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 |