Brightcove vs Plyr
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Brightcove · Plyr · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
6
33
Open Page Rank 8+
52
371
Open Page Rank 7+
140
1,265
Open Page Rank 6+
206
2,349
Open Page Rank 5+
269
3,960
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Brightcove · Plyr · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
853
21,879
India
506
10,363
Germany
348
10,092
Japan
348
9,899
United Kingdom
437
9,516
France
349
7,673
Canada
477
6,832
Italy
311
6,978
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Brightcove | Plyr |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.6 s | 2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 800 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.