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
119
Open Page Rank 8+
52
2,028
Open Page Rank 7+
140
8,276
Open Page Rank 6+
206
16,262
Open Page Rank 5+
269
28,851
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
853
263,095
India
506
123,969
Japan
348
117,529
Brazil
536
85,566
United Kingdom
437
76,855
France
349
70,187
Germany
348
68,819
Canada
477
63,317
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 | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 900 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 YouTube
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| nowcanal.pt | Jun 2026 |
| wiazawan.com | Jun 2026 |
| viska.se | May 2026 |
| metservice.com | Nov 2025 |
YouTube to Brightcove
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| realestate.com.au | May 2026 |
| viska.se | Apr 2026 |