Brightcove vs MediaElement.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Brightcove · MediaElement.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Brightcove · MediaElement.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
856
97,142
Germany
340
34,323
Italy
333
33,763
Spain
345
32,306
France
349
28,353
United Kingdom
446
27,525
India
497
26,914
Canada
482
21,462
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Brightcove | MediaElement.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.6 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.
Brightcove to MediaElement.js
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| anandlaw.com | Jul 2026 |