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 9+
6
51
Open Page Rank 8+
54
765
Open Page Rank 7+
153
2,495
Open Page Rank 6+
221
4,392
Open Page Rank 5+
283
7,528
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
950
113,124
Germany
406
39,334
Italy
370
37,528
Spain
373
35,619
France
411
33,927
United Kingdom
497
32,304
India
555
31,967
Canada
537
25,062
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 | 0.1 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 1100 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.