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
853
99,554
Germany
348
34,501
Italy
311
31,625
Spain
338
29,729
India
506
27,751
France
349
27,583
United Kingdom
437
27,401
Canada
477
21,548
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 | 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.
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 |