Brightcove vs YouTube
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Brightcove · YouTube · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
6
120
Open Page Rank 8+
54
2,055
Open Page Rank 7+
153
8,402
Open Page Rank 6+
221
16,604
Open Page Rank 5+
283
29,553
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Brightcove · YouTube · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
950
297,432
India
555
141,553
Japan
377
135,768
Brazil
591
93,424
United Kingdom
497
88,709
France
411
84,844
Germany
406
78,832
Canada
537
73,450
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Brightcove | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.6 s | 2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.1 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 900 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Brightcove to YouTube
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| viska.se | May 2026 |
| metservice.com | Nov 2025 |
YouTube to Brightcove
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| viska.se | Apr 2026 |